Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

Whenever you enter a house, first say, 'May peace be on this house!'

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!"

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of robbers!"