1 Timothy 3:5
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5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church?
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1 Samuel 3:13
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13 For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God,[a] and he did not restrain them.(A)
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- 3.13 Gk: Heb cursing for themselves
Ephesians 5:24
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24 Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.
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Ephesians 5:32
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32 This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
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1 Timothy 3:15
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15 if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.(A)
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Ephesians 1:22
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22 And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,(A)
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Acts 20:28
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28 Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God[a] that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.[b](A)
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1 Samuel 2:29-30
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29 Why then look[a] with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings[b] and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?(A) 30 Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.(B)
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1 Corinthians 10:32
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32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,(A)
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