Matthew 21:13 - The Scriptures 2009

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.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ He said to them, The Scripture says, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers. [Isa. 56:7; Jer. 7:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.

Common English Bible

¹³ He said to them, “It’s written, My house will be called a house of prayer. But you’ve made it a hideout for crooks.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And he said to them: "It is written: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer. But you have made it into a den of robbers.' "

Matthew 21:13 Cross References

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.

Isaiah 56:7

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

Luke 19:46

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

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.’ ”

Psalm 93:5

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

John 15:25

but...that the word might be filled which was written in their Torah, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Matthew 2:5

And they said to him, “In Bĕyth Leḥem of Yehuḏah, for thus it has been written by the prophet,

Luke 19:45

And having entered into the Set-apart Place, He began to drive out those selling and buying in it,