"Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them, but store up your riches in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them, and where thieves cannot break in and steal them.

and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a robbers' cave."

At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber? Day after day I have sat in the Temple preaching, and you never seized me.

There were two robbers crucified with him at the time, one at his right and one at his left.

Even the robbers who were crucified with him abused him in the same way.

And he taught them, and said, "Does not the Scripture say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a robbers' cave."

And Jesus spoke and said to them, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber?

They crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left.

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

Which of these three do you think proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

And Jesus said to the high priests, captains of the Temple, and elders who had come to take him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a robber?

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

with my frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from the heathen, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers,

for you yourselves know perfectly well that the Day of the Lord is to come like a thief in the night.

But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves.

So remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming upon you.