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Job 31:32
The stranger has not spent the night outside, For I have opened my doors to the traveler.
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1 Kings 17 9-1 Kings 17 24
“ Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide food for you.”So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the entrance of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said,“ Please get me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”As she was going to get it, he called to her and said,“ Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”But she said,“ As the Lord your God lives, I have no food, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks so that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”However, Elijah said to her,“ Do not fear; go, do as you have said. Just make me a little bread loaf from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says:‘ The bowl of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil become empty, until the day that the Lord provides rain on the face of the earth.’ ”So she went and did everything in accordance with the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days.The bowl of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil become empty, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke through Elijah.Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his condition became very grave, until at the end he was no longer breathing.So she said to Elijah,“ Why is my business any of yours, you man of God? Yet you have come to me to bring my wrongdoing to remembrance, and to put my son to death!”But he said to her,“ Give me your son.” Then he took him from her arms and carried him up to the upstairs room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.And he called to the Lord and said,“ Lord, my God, have You also brought catastrophe upon the widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?”Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times, and called to the Lord and said,“ Lord, my God, please, let this boy’s life return to him.”And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the boy returned to him and he revived.Elijah then took the boy and brought him down from the upstairs room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said,“ See, your son is alive.”Then the woman said to Elijah,“ Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”
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Luke 9:4
And whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that city.
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Luke 10:7-8
Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they provide; for the laborer is deserving of his wages. Do not move from house to house.Whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is served to you;
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Genesis 19:1-3
Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he stood up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.And he said,“ Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said,“ No, but we shall spend the night in the public square.”Yet he strongly urged them, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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Mark 6:10
And He said to them,“ Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave town.
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Acts 18:1-3
After these events Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent makers by trade.
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Acts 16:15
Now when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying,“ If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.
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Luke 10:38-42
Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.And she had a sister called Mary, who was also seated at the Lord’s feet, and was listening to His word.But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said,“ Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do the serving by myself? Then tell her to help me.”But the Lord answered and said to her,“ Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things;but only one thing is necessary; for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
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3 John 1 7-3 John 1 8
(niv)
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Judges 19:16-21
That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah( the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked,“ Where are you going? Where did you come from?”He answered,“ We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the Lord. No one has taken me in for the night.We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants— me, the woman and the young man with us. We don’t need anything.”“ You are welcome at my house,” the old man said.“ Let me supply whatever you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.”So he took him into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink. (niv)
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Luke 19:7
All the people saw this and began to mutter,“ He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” (niv)
