John 2:16 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁶ To those who sold doves he said, ‘Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then to those who sold the doves He said, Take these things away (out of here)! Make not My Father's house a house of merchandise (a marketplace, a sales shop)! [Ps. 93:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He said to the dove sellers, “Get these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a place of business.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And to those who were selling doves, he said: "Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father's house into a house of commerce."

John 2:16 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 7:11

Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those selling doves.

Matthew 21:13

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

Matthew 22:5

‘But they paid no attention and went off – one to his field, another to his business.

Mark 11:17

And as he taught them, he said, ‘Is it not written: “My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations”? But you have made it “a den of robbers”.’

Luke 2:49

‘Why were you searching for me?’ he asked. ‘Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?’

John 10:29

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no-one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

John 2:15

So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

John 20:17

Jesus said, ‘Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” ’

John 5:17

In his defence Jesus said to them, ‘My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.’

John 8:49

‘I am not possessed by a demon,’ said Jesus, ‘but I honour my Father and you dishonour me.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.