1 Timothy 3:5

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?

1 Timothy 3:15

in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

1 Samuel 2:29-30

Why, then, do all of you show contempt for my sacrifice and offering that I've commanded for my dwelling? And you honor your sons more than me in order to fatten yourselves from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel.'

1 Samuel 3:13

I've told him that I'm about to judge his family forever because of the iniquity that he knew about. His sons committed blasphemy and he did not rebuke them.

Acts 20:28

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Don't become a stumbling block to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

Ephesians 1:22

God has put everything under the Messiah's feet and has made him the head of everything for the good of the church,

Ephesians 5:24

Indeed, just as the church is submissive to the Messiah, so wives must be submissive to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great secret, but I am talking about the Messiah and the church.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

General references

Bible References

If

1 Samuel 2:29
Why, then, do all of you show contempt for my sacrifice and offering that I've commanded for my dwelling? And you honor your sons more than me in order to fatten yourselves from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel.'
1 Samuel 3:13
I've told him that I'm about to judge his family forever because of the iniquity that he knew about. His sons committed blasphemy and he did not rebuke them.

General references

1 Timothy 3:12
Ministers must be husbands of one wife and must manage their children and their families well.

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