For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God--
1 Timothy 3:15in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Treasury of Scripture
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
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1 Samuel 2:29,30
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? …
1 Samuel 3:13
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
the church.
1 Timothy 3:15
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Ephesians 1:22
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
