---
title: Luke 10:7
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/luke-10-7/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/luke-10-7.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Luke 10:7
testament: NT
section: Gospels
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Luke 10:7

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (2013 revision): "So stay in that house, eating and drinking the things they provide, for the worker is worthy of his wages."

## JW Usage

The Watchtower cites Luke 10:1-12 as a model for the modern preaching work — disciples sent out two-by-two, going from village to village proclaiming the Kingdom. The "worthy of his wages" clause in v. 7 is read as biblical warrant for the organisation's ministerial system. Luke 10:7 itself receives little commentary beyond this generic framing; the verse's explicit prohibition — "do not keep transferring from house to house" — is rarely engaged because the JW house-to-house ministry is the very thing it forbids.

## Protestant Usage

Lead with the verse in the Witness's own NWT — Jesus's instruction is unmistakable: "do not keep transferring from house to house." When Jesus actually addresses the question of how disciples should be received in a village (Matthew 10:11, Luke 10:7), his command is the opposite of door-to-door canvassing. Find a receptive household; stay there until you move on. Then show the Greek distinction between Luke 10:7 (ex oikias eis oikian — out of house into house, the prohibited movement) and Acts 5:42 / Acts 2:46 (kat' oikon — in each house, describing where the apostles taught believers, not how they evangelised strangers). The NWT itself proves the distinction by translating the same kat' oikon as "from house to house" at Acts 5:42 but "in different homes" at Acts 2:46 — different English renderings for the same Greek phrase, because the Watchtower needs Acts 5:42 to validate its method while Acts 2:46 obviously refers to meals in homes.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Jesus Said 'Do Not Go From House to House'](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/luke10-house-to-house.md) — Luke 10:7 / Acts 5:42 / Acts 20:20 [Practice]