1 Timothy 3:15

New English Translation

in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:2

“I am about to die. Be strong and become a man!

1 Kings 2:4

and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ‘If your descendants watch their step and live faithfully in my presence with all their heart and being, then,’ he promised, ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”

1 Chronicles 22:13

Then you will succeed, if you carefully obey the rules and regulations which the Lord ordered Moses to give to Israel. Be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic!

Psalm 42:2

I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”

Psalm 84:2

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

Jeremiah 1:18

I, the Lord, hereby promise to make you as strong as a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall. You will be able to stand up against all who live in the land, including the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and all the people of the land.

Jeremiah 10:10

The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.

Jeremiah 23:36

You must no longer say that the Lord’s message is burdensome. For what is ‘burdensome’ really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the Lord who rules over all.

Daniel 6:26

I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.

Hosea 1:10

(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “You are children of the living God!”

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Matthew 18:18

“I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

John 14:6

Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 18:37

Then Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world – to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

John 6:69

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”

Acts 1:2

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

Romans 3:2

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Romans 9:26

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

2 Corinthians 3:3

revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

2 Corinthians 6:7

by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

Galatians 2:9

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Galatians 3:1

You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

Ephesians 4:21

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

Deuteronomy 31:23

and the Lord commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you.”

Deuteronomy 5:26

Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Colossians 1:5

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

1 Timothy 3:14

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you

1 Timothy 3:16

And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 3:2

The overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

1 Timothy 3:5

But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

1 Timothy 4:10

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

1 Timothy 6:16

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

2 Timothy 2:19

However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.

Hebrews 10:21

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

Joshua 3:10

Joshua continued, “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

1 Peter 2:5

you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?

Revelation 7:2

Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:

1 Samuel 17:26

David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them. For he has defied the armies of the living God!”