⁵ (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.

¹⁵ but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

²⁹ Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?

³⁰ Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

²⁸ Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and{TR, NU omit "the Lord and"} God which he purchased with his own blood.

³² Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

²² He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

²⁴ But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

³² This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.