Hear ye another parable. There was a certain man who was a house-ruler, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went on a journey.

Or, how can anyone get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant? After that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in exactly what part of the night the thief would come, he would have been on guard and would not have let his house be broken into.

and said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house must be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave for robbers."

And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it;

Sufficient for the disciple, that he become, as his teacher, and, the servant, as, his lord. If, the master of the house, Beelzebul, they called, how much more, the men of his house!

And, he that is on the house-top, let him not come down, to take away the things out of his house;

Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ And returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order.

and if the house is worthy, your blessing shall come upon it; but if the house is not worthy, your blessing shall return to you.

A good person brings good things out of a good treasure house, and an evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure house.