10 Bible Verses about Marketplaces
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and salutations in the market-places, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the market before the magistrates;
He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.
And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;
And entering into the temple, he began to cast out those that sold and bought in it, saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of robbers. And he was teaching day by day in the temple: and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,read more.
and did not find what they could do, for all the people hung on him to hear.
And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and salutations in the marketplaces,
But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their companions,
but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap.
whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel; but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.
They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.