8 Bible Verses about Not Welcoming People

And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say,

They stopped there and decided to spend the night in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.

The Levite said to him, "We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That's where I'm from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I'm heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.

The Lord said to me: "Son of man, pay attention, watch closely and listen carefully to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord's house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to the deeds he is doing -- the bringing of unjustified charges against us with evil words! And not being content with that, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but hinders the people who want to do so and throws them out of the church!

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting,