But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."

He cried out in a powerful voice, "Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a prison for every unclean spirit, a prison for every unclean bird, and a prison for every unclean and hated beast.

Then he began to teach them: "It is written, is it not, "My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you've turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

"Whatever house you go into, first say, "May there be peace in this house.'

Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they provide, because the worker deserves his pay. Don't move from house to house.

He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

Every day in the Temple and from house to house they kept teaching and proclaiming that Jesus is the Messiah.

I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.

At the same time, they also learn how to be lazy while going from house to house. Not only this, but they even become gossips and keep busy by interfering in other people's lives, saying things they should not say.

because he is worthy of greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

but God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house.

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.

He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a hideout for bandits!"

But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known when during the night the thief would be coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.