Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal: store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal.

and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.

Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.

The robbers who were crucified with him also denounced him in the same way.

also he taught them. "Is it not written," he asked, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? You have made it a den of robbers."

Jesus turned on them, saying, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

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

Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead.

Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?"

"It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

Then he said to the high priests and commanders of the temple and elders who had appeared to take him, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber;

all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers ??but the sheep would not listen to them.

(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers ??27 through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

You know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night;

But, brothers, you are not in the darkness for the Day to surprise you like thieves;

Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.