Matthew 21:13
Good News Translation
and said to them, "It is written in the Scriptures that God said, 'My Temple will be called a house of prayer.' But you are making it a hideout for thieves!"

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”

Contemporary English Version
He told them, "The Scriptures say, 'My house should be called a place of worship.' But you have turned it into a place where robbers hide."

New American Bible
And he said to them, “It is written: ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of thieves.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

It is.

Matthew 2:5 But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the prophet:

John 15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

My.

Psalm 93:5 Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.

Isaiah 56:7 I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.

ye.

Jeremiah 7:11 Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 19:46 Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
12And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the chairs of them that sold doves. 13And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves. 14And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple: and he healed them.…
Cross References
Isaiah 56:7
I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.

Jeremiah 7:11
Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Mark 11:17
And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 19:45
And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.

Luke 19:46
Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

Matthew 21:12
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