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.
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- Isa 56:7 : 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.
- Jer 7:11 : 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.
- Ezek 43:12 : 12 This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.
- Hos 12:7 : 7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
- Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
- Ps 93:5 : 5 Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.
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16 And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.
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.
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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;
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6 As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down.
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29 And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,
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