Verse 11

When you enter any town or village, find out who is worthy and stay there until you leave.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. When he reached the city gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a vessel so I may drink." 11 As she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand as well." 12 But she replied, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked. I only have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a couple of sticks to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we may eat it and then die." 13 Elijah said to her, "Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said, but first make a small cake for me from what you have and bring it to me. Then make some for yourself and your son." 14 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not run out, and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the earth.' 15 She went and did according to what Elijah said, and she, Elijah, and her household ate for many days. 16 The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run dry, as the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah had declared. 17 After this, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick. His illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. 18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?" 19 Elijah said to her, "Give me your son." He took the boy from her arms, brought him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. 20 Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy upon the widow I am staying with by causing her son to die?" 21 Elijah stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, please let the boy’s life return to him." 22 The LORD heard Elijah’s prayer, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. 23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, 'Look, your son is alive.' 24 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.'
  • Job 31:32 : 32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler—
  • Gen 19:1-3 : 1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting at the city gate. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 He said, "Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant’s house. Spend the night and wash your feet; then you can rise early and be on your way." But they said, "No, we will spend the night in the square." 3 But Lot insisted strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking unleavened bread, and they ate.
  • Acts 16:15 : 15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, 'If you consider me faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my house.' And she persuaded us.
  • Acts 18:1-3 : 1 After this, Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. 2 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 leave Rome. Paul went to see them. 3 Since they were of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them, for they were tentmakers by trade.
  • 3 John 1:7-8 : 7 For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore, we ought to support people like these so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
  • Judg 19:16-21 : 16 In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim and was staying temporarily in Gibeah, though the people of the place were Benjaminites. 17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man asked, "Where are you going, and where have you come from?" 18 The man answered, "We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the Lord, but no one has taken me into their home. 19 We have straw and feed for our donkeys, as well as bread and wine for me, your servant, for the woman with me, and for the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing." 20 The old man said, "Peace to you! Let me take care of all your needs, but do not spend the night in the square." 21 He brought him into his house and provided fodder for the donkeys. They washed their feet, ate, and drank.
  • Mark 6:10 : 10 He said to them, 'Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place.'
  • Luke 9:4 : 4 Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the town.
  • Luke 10:7-8 : 7 Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house. 8 When you enter a town and they welcome you, eat what is set before you.
  • Luke 10:38-42 : 38 While they were traveling, He entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and listened to His word. 40 But Martha was distracted by much serving. So she came to Him and asked, 'Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, therefore, to help me.' 41 The Lord answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.' 42 'But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.'
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 But when they saw this, everyone began to complain, saying, "He has gone to be a guest with a sinful man."