5 For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?
1 Timothy 3:5 Cross References - VIN
1 Samuel 2:29-30
29 Why do you despise my sacrifice and my offering which I commanded for my dwelling place, while you honored your sons more than me by making yourselves fat from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel?
30 Therefore the LORD the God of Israel says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before Me forever'. But now the LORD says, 'Far be it from Me. Those who honour Me I will honour, and those who despise Me shall be despised.
1 Samuel 3:13
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile and he did not restrain them.
Acts 20:28
28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
1 Corinthians 10:32
32 Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,
Ephesians 1:22
22 And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,
Ephesians 5:24
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:32
32 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
1 Timothy 3:15
15 so that, if I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.