3 ¹⁴ I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that, 3 ¹⁵ if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth. 3 ¹⁶ Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: