28 Bible Verses about Staying Temporarily

He said: Please tell me who your father is. Is there room in his house for my men and me to spend the night?

There is plenty of straw and fodder at our house. There is also a place for you to stay.

My lords, he said, come to my home to wash your feet, and be my guests for the night. You may get up in the morning as early as you like and be on your way again. Oh no, they said, We will spend the night out here in the city square.

We will pass by and go a little farther and spend the night at Gibeah or Ramah.

They turned off the road to spend the night there. They went into town and sat down in the city square. However no one offered to take them home for the night.

The Levite whose concubine had been murdered answered: My concubine and I went to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he prepared a gift for his brother Esau from what he had brought with him:

Jacob sent the gift ahead of him, while he stayed in the camp that night.

Stay with him until your brother's anger cools down.

Laban answered: It is better that I give her to you than to anyone else. Stay here with me.

He left them and went out of the town to Bethany where he stayed for the night.

When Jesus came to the place he looked up at Zacchaeus and said: Come down quickly for today I must visit your home.

When the Samaritans came to him they urged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days.

They persuaded him not to go saying, Abide with us. It is nearly evening and the day is almost gone. He stayed with them.

When she and her household were baptized she came to us saying, If you judge me to be faithful to God, come to my house, and stay there. She absolutely insisted that we come.

Prepare a lodging for me. I hope that through your prayers I shall be given to you.

They stopped for the night. One of them opened his sack to feed his donkey and his money was right inside his sack.

When we stopped for the night, we each found in our grain sacks the exact amount we had paid. We have brought that money back.

Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that Jehovah met him and sought to put him to death.

She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger. That was because there was no room for them in the inn.

He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him.

As the day wore on the twelve came to him and said: Send the people away, that they may go into the villages and country nearby to find lodging and get food, for we are here in a lonely place.

Jesus turned and saw them following. He asked them, What are you after? They asked him: Teacher, where are you staying?

He said Come and see. So they came to where he was staying. They stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

They called out and asked if Simon surnamed Peter lived there.

Send to Joppa, and call Simon, whose surname is Peter. He lives in the house of the tanner named Simon by the sea. When he comes he will speak with you.'

He was of the same trade as Paul. So he stayed with them and worked at their tentmaker trade.