'House' in the Bible

After they went into the house and saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure sacks and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

People don't light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lamp stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

"Therefore, everyone who listens to these messages of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation was on the rock.

"Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and battered that house, and it collapsed and its collapse was total."

When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed, sick with a fever.

When Jesus came to the official's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

When he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They told him, "Yes, Lord!"

As you enter the house, greet its occupants.

If no one welcomes you or listens to your words, as you leave that house or town, shake its dust off your feet.

It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher and a slave to be like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they do the same to those of his household!"

How is it that he went into the house of God and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for him and his companions to eat but was reserved for the priests?

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.

That day Jesus left the house and sat down beside the sea.

Then Jesus left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to him and asked, "Explain to us the parable about the weeds in the field."

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!"

Look! Your house is left abandoned!

Anyone who's on the housetop must not come down to get what is in his house,

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.

He said, "Go to a certain man in the city and say to him, "The Teacher says, "My time is near. I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house."'"

After they left the synagogue, they went directly to the house of Simon and Andrew, along with James and John.

Later, he was having dinner at Levi's house. Many tax collectors and sinners were also eating with Jesus and his disciples, because there were many who were following him.

How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?"

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.

He entered the house and asked them, "Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead. She's sleeping."

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

Back in the house, the disciples asked him about this again.

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!"

The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,

So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning, or at dawn.

When he goes into a house, say to its owner that the Teacher asks, "Where is my room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?'

He will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will never end."

He asked them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?"

Then Jesus got up to leave the synagogue and went into Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a high fever, so they asked Jesus about her.

Some men were bringing a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to take him into the house and place him in front of Jesus.

How was it that he went into the house of God, took the Bread of the Presence and ate it, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and then gave some of it to his companions?"

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.

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."

So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to tell Jesus, "Sir, stop troubling yourself, because I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof.

Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant in perfect health.

Then, turning to the woman, he told Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn't give me any water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

When Jesus stepped out on the shore, a man from the city met him. This man was controlled by demons and had not worn clothes for a long time. He did not live in a house but in the tombs.

When he arrived at the man's house, he allowed no one to go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the young girl's father and mother.

"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.

But be sure of this: if the homeowner had known at what time the thief were coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

Look! Your house is left vacant to you. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, "How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

One Sabbath, Jesus went to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal. The guests were watching Jesus closely.

"So the servant went back and reported all this to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and told his servant, "Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Then the master told the servant, "Go out into the streets and the lanes and make the people come in, so that my house may be full.

"Or suppose a woman has ten coins and loses one of them. She lights a lamp, sweeps the house, and searches carefully until she finds it, doesn't she?

"Now the father's older son was in the field. As he was coming back to the house, he heard music and dancing.

"Then the older son became angry and wouldn't go into the house. So his father came out and began to plead with him.

"The rich man said, "Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house

"The person who is on the housetop that day must not come down to get his belongings out of his house. The person in the field, too, must not turn back to what's left behind.

When Jesus came to the tree, he looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today."

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!"

He told them, "Just after you go into the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters

and say to the owner of the house, "The Teacher asks you, "Where is the room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?"'

Then they arrested him, led him away, and brought him to the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."

Suddenly, a sound like the roar of a mighty windstorm came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

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

"At this time Moses was born. He was beautiful in the sight of God, and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?

He found favor with God and asked to design a dwelling for the house of Jacob,

but it was Solomon who built a house for him.

""Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house can you build for me,' declares the Lord, "or what place is there in which I can rest?

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.

So Ananias left and went to that house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

He is a guest of Simon, a leatherworker, whose house is by the sea."

While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.

"At that very moment three men arrived at the house where we were staying. They had been sent to me from Caesarea.

The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitating. These six brothers went with me, too, and we entered the house of the man from Caesarea.

When Peter realized what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where a large number of people had gathered and were praying.

He brought Paul and Silas upstairs into his house and set food before them. He was thrilled, as was his household, to believe in God.

Leaving the jail, Paul and Silas went to Lydia's house. They saw the brothers, encouraged them, and then left.

Then he left that place and went to the home of a man named Titius Justus, who worshipped God and whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them, got the better of them, and so violently overpowered all of them that they fled out of the house naked and bruised.

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

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first convert to the Messiah in Asia.

If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, raising no question on the grounds of conscience.

The churches in Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca and the church in their house greet you warmly in union with the Lord.

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

Give my greetings to the brothers in Laodicea, especially to Nympha and the church that is in her 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.

In a large house there are not only utensils made of gold and silver, but also those made of wood and clay. Some are for special use, while others are for ordinary use.

2to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house.

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.

After all, every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

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.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus, the Messiah.