1 Timothy 3:5

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

for if any man know not how to govern his house, how shall he have diligence [or the keeping] of the church of God?

Cross References

Acts 20:28

Take ye attention to you, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Ghost hath set [or hath put] you, bishops to rule the church of God, which he purchased with his blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Be ye without offence to Jews, and to heathen men, and to the church of God;

Ephesians 1:22

and made all things subject under his feet, and gave him to be head over all the church,

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to Christ, so women to their husbands in all things.

Ephesians 5:32

This sacrament is great; yea, I say in Christ, and in the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I tarry, that thou knowest, how it behooveth thee to live in the house of God, that is the church of living God, a pillar and firmness of truth.

1 Samuel 3:13

For I before-said to him, that I should deem his house without end for the wickedness thereof; for he knew, that his sons did unworthily, and he chastised not them.