Luke 19:46

New English Translation

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

Cross References

Psalm 93:5

The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.

Isaiah 56:7

I will bring them to my holy mountain; I will make them happy in the temple where people pray to me. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my temple will be known as a temple where all nations may pray.”

Jeremiah 7:11

Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord.

Ezekiel 43:12

“This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.

Hosea 12:7

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

Matthew 21:13

And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

Mark 11:17

Then he began to teach them and said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”