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Genesis 19:1-3
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When the two angels came to Sodom that evening, Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before them
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and said, "Sirs, I am here to serve you. Please come to my house. You can wash your feet and spend the night. In the morning you can get up early and go on your way." But they answered, "No, we will spend the night here in the city square."
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He kept on urging them, and finally they went with him to his house. Lot ordered his servants to bake some bread and prepare a fine meal for the guests. When it was ready, they ate it.
Judges 19:16-21
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While they were there, an old man came by at the end of a day's work on the farm. He was originally from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was now living in Gibeah. (The other people there were from the tribe of Benjamin.)
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The old man noticed the traveler in the city square and asked him, "Where do you come from? Where are you going?"
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The Levite answered, "We have been in Bethlehem in Judah, and now we are on our way home deep in the hill country of Ephraim. No one will put us up for the night,
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even though we have fodder and straw for our donkeys, as well as bread and wine for my concubine and me and for my servant. We have everything we need."
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The old man said, "You are welcome in my home! I'll take care of you; you don't have to spend the night in the square."
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So he took them home with him and fed their donkeys. His guests washed their feet and had a meal.
1 Kings 17:9-24
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"Now go to the town of Zarephath, near Sidon, and stay there. I have commanded a widow who lives there to feed you."
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So Elijah went to Zarephath, and as he came to the town gate, he saw a widow gathering firewood. "Please bring me a drink of water," he said to her.
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And as she was going to get it, he called out, "And please bring me some bread, too."
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She answered, "By the living LORD your God I swear that I don't have any bread. All I have is a handful of flour in a bowl and a bit of olive oil in a jar. I came here to gather some firewood to take back home and prepare what little I have for my son and me. That will be our last meal, and then we will starve to death."
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"Don't worry," Elijah said to her. "Go on and prepare your meal. But first make a small loaf from what you have and bring it to me, and then prepare the rest for you and your son.
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For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The bowl will not run out of flour or the jar run out of oil before the day that I, the LORD, send rain.' "
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The widow went and did as Elijah had told her, and all of them had enough food for many days.
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As the LORD had promised through Elijah, the bowl did not run out of flour nor did the jar run out of oil.
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Some time later the widow's son got sick; he got worse and worse, and finally he died.
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She said to Elijah, "Man of God, why did you do this to me? Did you come here to remind God of my sins and so cause my son's death?"
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"Give the boy to me," Elijah said. He took the boy from her arms, carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying, and laid him on the bed.
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Then he prayed aloud, "O LORD my God, why have you done such a terrible thing to this widow? She has been kind enough to take care of me, and now you kill her son!"
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Then Elijah stretched himself out on the boy three times and prayed, "O LORD my God, restore this child to life!"
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The LORD answered Elijah's prayer; the child started breathing again and revived.
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Elijah took the boy back downstairs to his mother and said to her, "Look, your son is alive!"
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She answered, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the LORD really speaks through you!"
Job 31:32
I invited travelers into my home and never let them sleep in the streets.
Luke 10:38-42
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As Jesus and his disciples went on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha welcomed him in her home.
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She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the feet of the Lord and listened to his teaching.
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Martha was upset over all the work she had to do, so she came and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself ? Tell her to come and help me!"
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The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha! You are worried and troubled over so many things,
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but just one is needed. Mary has chosen the right thing, and it will not be taken away from her."
Luke 19:7
All the people who saw it started grumbling, "This man has gone as a guest to the home of a sinner!"
Acts 16:15
After she and the people of her house had been baptized, she invited us, "Come and stay in my house if you have decided that I am a true believer in the Lord." And she persuaded us to go.
Acts 18:1-3
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After this, Paul left Athens and went on to Corinth.
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There he met a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, for Emperor Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
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and stayed and worked with them, because he earned his living by making tents, just as they did.
3 John 1:7
For they set out on their trip in the service of Christ without accepting any help from unbelievers.
3 John 1:8
We Christians, then, must help these people, so that we may share in their work for the truth.
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Mark 6:10
He also told them, "Wherever you are welcomed, stay in the same house until you leave that place.
Luke 9:4
Wherever you are welcomed, stay in the same house until you leave that town;
Luke 10:7
Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from one house to another.
Luke 10:8
Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is set before you,