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Job 31:32
But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler–
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1 Kings 17 9-1 Kings 17 24
“ Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.”So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her,“ Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink.”As she went to get it, he called out to her,“ Please bring me a piece of bread.”She said,“ As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”Elijah said to her,“ Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.For this is what the LORD God of Israel says,‘ The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the LORD makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah.After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.She asked Elijah,“ Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”He said to her,“ Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.Then he called out to the LORD,“ O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD,“ O LORD, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”The LORD answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said,“ See, your son is alive!”The woman said to Elijah,“ Now I know that you are a prophet and that the LORD really does speak through you.”
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Luke 9:4
Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave the area.
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Luke 10:7-8
Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.
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Genesis 19:1-3
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.He said,“ Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“ No,” they replied,“ we’ll spend the night in the town square.”But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.
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Mark 6:10
He said to them,“ Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.
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Acts 18:1-3
After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them( for they were tentmakers by trade).
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Acts 16:15
After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“ If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.
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Luke 10:38-42
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest.She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said,“ Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”But the Lord answered her,“ Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things,but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”
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3 John 1 7-3 John 1 8
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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)
