 | John Scott Porter - 1834 - 224 pages
...1 JOHN v. 20, &c. to which I yesterday referred. Mr. Porter next adverted to I TIM. iii. 15, 16 : " But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou...behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. And, without controversy, great is the mystery... | |
 | John Scott Porter - 1834 - 216 pages
...is the church of the living God;" and we must read the interveningsentence as a parenthesis: thus, " But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God,',which is the church of the living God, (the pillar and ground of truth, and without controversy... | |
 | General Association of Connecticut - 1856 - 818 pages
...preached by Rev. BJ Rclyea, from the words in 1 Tim. 3 : 1 5 — " But if I tarry long, that thou inayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.'' At the close of the discourse, the Association... | |
 | Thomas Church Brownell - 1834 - 538 pages
...these things I write unto thee, hoping to come urno thee shortly, but if I tarry long [I write them] that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God ;" ie in that family or society of the faithful which constitutes the universal " Church of the living... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - 1971 - 196 pages
...for an individual when the church of the living God, any group of believers, assembled for worship: "That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth" (I Timothy 3:15). IV. THE APPROACH TO WORSHIP... | |
 | Saint Epiphanius (Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus) - 1987 - 396 pages
...recommended by works and faith. (4) So says the most holy Paul, writing the following words to Timothy: "That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of the Lord, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth,30 which the many... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1964 - 324 pages
...blessed if we but heed the instructions regarding such. How pointed is the advice of Paul to Timothy— "That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God" (I Timothy 3:15). One fears that many Christians are not as careful as they ought to be regarding personal... | |
 | Johanna Manley - 1990 - 1144 pages
...refused if it is received with thanksgiving; 5 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. Church, according to St. Cyril of Alexandria, is 'the holy city, which has not been sanctified by observing... | |
 | Robert E. Picirilli, W. Stanley Outlaw, Daryl Ellis - 1990 - 468 pages
...b. The need for proper order Paul states to Timothy a second reason for these written instructions: that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God. Of course, this does not mean that Timothy had been misbehaving in any moral or ethical sense. The... | |
 | Walter Leggett Wakefield, Austin Patterson Evans - 1991 - 888 pages
...thee hoping that I shall come to thee shortly. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how them oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, which is the pillar and mainstay of the truth."8 And again he says to the Hebrews,... | |
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But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 
