Matthew 24:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.”
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“Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:”
King James Version · Public Domain“let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“he on the house-top--let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 24:17 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 22:8If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
- 1 Samuel 9:25And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
- Job 2:4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
- Proverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
- Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Matthew 10:27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
- Mark 13:15Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.
- Luke 5:19but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
- Luke 12:3What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
- Luke 17:31On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
- Acts 10:9The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).