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Matthew 21:13
He said to them,“ It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!”
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Luke 2:49
“ Why were you searching for me?” he asked them.“ Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house?”
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Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Isaiah 56:5-11
I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give each of them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.As for the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to become his servants— all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold firmly to my covenant—I will bring them to my holy mountain and let them rejoice in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”This is the declaration of the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel:“ I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”All you animals of the field and forest, come and eat!Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them, they know nothing; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, and love to sleep.These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.
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Mark 11:17
He was teaching them:“ Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!”
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2 Peter 2 14-2 Peter 2 15
They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness
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John 5:17
Jesus responded to them,“ My Father is still working, and I am working also.”
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2 Peter 2 3
They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
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Hosea 12:7-8
A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.But Ephraim thinks,“ How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for!”
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John 20:17
“ Don’t cling to me,” Jesus told her,“ since I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
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Acts 19:24-27
For a person named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, provided a great deal of business for the craftsmen.When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said,“ Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods.Not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin— the very one all of Asia and the world worship.”
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John 10:29
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
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1 Timothy 6 5
and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.
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John 8:49
“ I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered.“ On the contrary, I honor my Father and you dishonor me.