⁴² The Lord^(A) answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time?

¹⁹ Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers,^(A) but fellow citizens^(B) with God’s people and also members of his household,^(C)

¹⁵ if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church^(A) of the living God,^(B) the pillar and foundation of the truth.

⁸ Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied^(A) the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁴ For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.^{(A) 5} “Moses was faithful as a servant^(B) in all God’s house,”^[a](C) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. ⁶ But Christ is faithful as the Son^(D) over God’s house. And we are his house,^(E) if indeed we hold firmly^(F) to our confidence and the hope^(G) in which we glory.