⁵ for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for ^(A)God's church?

^13 (A)And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, ^(B)because his sons were blaspheming God,^{[a] (C)}and he did not restrain them.

²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit ^(A)in everything to their husbands.

³² This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

¹⁵ if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

²² And ^(A)he put all things under his feet and gave him as ^(B)head over all things to the church,

^28 (A)Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all ^(B)the flock, in which ^(C)the Holy Spirit has made you ^(D)overseers, ^(E)to care for ^(F)the church of God,^[a] which he ^(G)obtained ^(H)with his own blood.^[b]

²⁹ Why then do you ^(A)scorn^[a] my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’ ³⁰ Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^(B)‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^(C)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 lightly esteemed.

^32 (A)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to ^(B)the church of God,