43 Bible Verses about distance

But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far away from you and since the Lord your God has blessed you,

But keep a distance of about 1,000 yards between yourselves and the ark. Don’t go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven’t traveled this way before.”

Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”

There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

Bethany was near Jerusalem (about two miles away).

They seized Him, led Him away, and brought Him into the high priest’s house. Meanwhile Peter was following at a distance.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before Him.

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the Lord your God chooses.

Then the press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press up to the horses’ bridles for about 180 miles.

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me—a sinner!’

As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed
our transgressions from us.

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is His faithful love
toward those who fear Him.

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to Him were there, looking on from a distance.

Now a long way off from them, a large herd of pigs was feeding.

My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,
and my relatives stand at a distance.

After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;
you will see a vast land.

They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.

My husband isn’t home;
he went on a long journey.

“Am I a God who is only near”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and not a God who is far away?

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

All mankind has seen it;
people have looked at it from a distance.

David crossed to the other side and stood on top of the mountain at a distance; there was a considerable space between them.

Then He said to Moses, “Go up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders, and bow in worship at a distance.

The people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shouting from that of the weeping, because the people were shouting so loudly. And the sound was heard far away.

Fifty men from the sons of the prophets came and stood facing them from a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

for in a single hour
such fabulous wealth was destroyed!

And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off

He charges ahead with trembling rage;
he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.

Now Moses took a tent and set it up outside the camp, far away from the camp; he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult the Lord would go to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.

The perimeter of the city will be six miles, and the name of the city from that day on will be: Yahweh Is There.”

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;
keep your feet away from evil.

All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly.

Meanwhile, Peter was following Him at a distance right to the high priest’s courtyard. He went in and was sitting with the temple police to see the outcome.

The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand far off in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,