John 2:16 Cross References - MNT

¹⁶ and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!

¹³ "It is written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves."

¹⁷ "Is it not written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers."

⁴⁹ He answered, "Why is it that you have been looking for me, did you not realize that I had to be in my Father's house?"

¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too."

⁴⁹ "I do not have a demon," said Jesus, "but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me.

²⁹ "My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

¹⁷ "Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

²⁴ There was a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, and brought rich profit to his workmen. ²⁵ He gathered them together with others of like occupation, and said: "Men, you know that by this business we make our money. ²⁶ "And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but almost throughout all of Asia, this fellow Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, by telling them that they are no gods at all who are made with hands. ²⁷ "So there is danger not only that our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be brought into disrepute, and that she herself may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world now worships."

⁵ and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

³ In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

¹⁴ They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation. ¹⁵ They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.