Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.
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Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.
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Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves.
Mark 11:15
And they came to Jerusalem; and he went into the Temple, and sent out those who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were offering doves for money;
Mark 11:16
And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.
Mark 11:17
And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.
Luke 19:45
And he went into the Temple and put out those who were trading there,
Luke 19:46
Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.
Luke 19:47
And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death;
John 2:13
The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 2:14
And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats:
John 2:15
And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables;
John 2:16
And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.
John 2:17
And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.
Matthew 21:23
And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?
Matthew 23:38
See, your house is made waste.
Mark 11:11
And he went into Jerusalem into the Temple; and after looking round about on all things, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
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Isaiah 56:6
And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:
Isaiah 56:7
I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Hosea 12:7
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
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Matthew 21:11
And the people said, This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.
Matthew 21:14
And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.
Matthew 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him,
Matthew 21:16
Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?
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Luke 19:48
But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.
John 2:22
So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.
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Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 3:2
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
Malachi 3:3
He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
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Matthew 21:18
Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.
Matthew 21:19
And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
Matthew 21:21
And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.
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2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
2 Chronicles 33:7
And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2 Chronicles 36:14
And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
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Matthew 26:55
In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.
Matthew 27:38
Then two thieves were put on crosses with him, one on the right and one on the left.
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Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Ezekiel 22:13
See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
John 10:1
Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.
John 12:6
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
1 Corinthians 6:10
Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
Revelation 18:13
And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.
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Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.
1 Samuel 2:17
And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.
1 Samuel 6:19
But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.
1 Samuel 13:9
Then Saul said, Come here and give me the burned offering and the peace-offerings. And he made a burned offering to the Lord.
2 Samuel 6:6
And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control.
2 Kings 21:7
He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.
2 Kings 25:13
And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.
1 Chronicles 13:9
And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping.
2 Chronicles 24:7
For the house of the Lord had been broken up by Athaliah, that evil woman, and her sons; and all its holy things they had given to the Baals.
2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.
2 Chronicles 28:24
And Ahaz got together the vessels of the house of God, cutting up all the vessels of the house of God, and shutting the doors of the Lord's house; and he made altars in every part of Jerusalem.
Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.
Acts 8:19
Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.
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2 Chronicles 29:5
And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.
2 Chronicles 29:16
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.
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John 4:21
Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
John 4:22
You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.
John 4:23
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
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Romans 2:21
You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?
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Romans 2:22
You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?
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