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Job 31:32
No stranger had to spend the night on the street, for I opened my door to the traveler.
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1 Kings 17 9-1 Kings 17 24
“ Get up, go to Zarephath that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman who is a widow to provide for you there.”So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. Elijah called to her and said,“ Please bring me a little water in a cup and let me drink.”As she went 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 don’t have anything baked— only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”Then Elijah said to her,“ Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son,for this is what the LORD God of Israel says,‘ The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the surface of the land.’”So she proceeded to do according to the word of Elijah. Then the woman, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.The flour jar did not become empty, and the oil jug did not run dry, according to the word of the LORD he had spoken through Elijah.After this, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. His illness got worse until he stopped breathing.She said to Elijah,“ Man of God, what do you have against me? Have you come to call attention to my iniquity so that my son is put to death?”But Elijah said to her,“ Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, brought him up to the upstairs room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.Then he cried out to the LORD and said,“ LORD my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son?”Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times. He cried out to the LORD and said,“ LORD my God, please let this boy’s life come into him again!”So the LORD listened to Elijah, and the boy’s life came into him again, and he lived.Then Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upstairs room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Elijah said,“ Look, your son is alive.”Then the woman said to Elijah,“ Now I know you are a man of God and the LORD’s word from your mouth is true.”
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Luke 9:4
Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there.
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Luke 10:7-8
Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Don’t move from house to house.When you enter any town, and they welcome you, eat the things set before you.
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Genesis 19:1-3
The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the groundand said,“ My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”“ No,” they said.“ We would rather spend the night in the square.”But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.
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Mark 6:10
He said to them,“ Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place.
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Acts 18:1-3
After this, he left Athens and went to Corinth,where 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 leave Rome. Paul came to them,and since they were of the same occupation, tentmakers by trade, he stayed with them and worked.
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Acts 16:15
After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“ If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
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Luke 10:38-42
While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet and was listening to what he said.But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked,“ Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”The Lord answered her,“ Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things,but one thing is necessary. Mary has made the right choice, and 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)
