'Household' in the Bible
If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you.
It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."
He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.
(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)
So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar's household.
But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?