Stay on at the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the workman deserves his support. Do not keep moving about from house to house.

He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep, and laid its foundation upon the rock; and when a flood came, the torrent burst upon that house but it could not shake it, because it was well built.

But the man who merely hears them and does not practice them is like a man who built a house upon the ground without a foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and at once it collapsed, and the wreck of that house was complete."

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

The man who is on the roof of his house that day, and his goods in the house, must not come down to carry them out; and the man in the field, too, must not turn back.

and He said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave for robbers."