Luke 19:46 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴⁶ saying to them, “It has been written, ‘My House is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁶ saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁶ Telling them, It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer; but you have made it a cave of robbers. [Isa. 56:7; Jer. 7:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁶ saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.

Common English Bible

⁴⁶ He said to them, “It’s written,My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hideout for crooks.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁶ saying to them: "It is written: 'My house is a house of prayer.' But you have made it into a den of robbers."

Luke 19:46 Cross References

Psalm 93:5

Your witnesses have been very trustworthy. Set-apartness befits Your house, O יהוה, forever.

Isaiah 56:7

them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My altar, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”

Jeremiah 7:11

“Has this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I Myself have seen it,” declares יהוה.

Ezekiel 43:12

“This is the Torah of the House: Upon the mountaintop, all the boundary of it, all around, is most set-apart. See, this is the Torah of the House.

Hosea 12:7

A merchant! In his hand are scales of deceit, he loved to oppress.

Matthew 21:13

And He said to them, “It has been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Mark 11:17

And He was teaching, saying to them, “Has it not been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”