26 Bible Verses about Travellers

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were empty, and the travelers walked through crooked ways.

And there came a traveler to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd to dress for the traveler that had come to him. But he took the poor man's lamb and dressed it for the man who had come to him.

O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveler turning in to lodge?

distributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,

well reported of for good works: if she brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she followed after every good work.

but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Be hospitable to one another, without grudging;

Let a little water, I pray, be brought, and wash Your feet, and rest under the tree.

and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant's house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street.

And he said, Come in, blessed of Jehovah. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

And Manoah said to the Angel of Jehovah, I pray You, let us keep You until we have made a kid ready for You.

And the old man said, Peace be with you. Yet all that you lack shall be on me. Only do not stay in the street.

And the day came when Elisha passed over to Shunem. And a great woman was there. And she laid hold on him to eat bread. And it happened, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

And at my table were a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those who came to us from among the nations around us.

The stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler.

And when she was baptized, she and her household, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. And she constrained us.

And bringing them up to the house, he set a table before them and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.

And the next day those around him going out, Paul came to Caesarea. And entering the house of Philip the evangelist, he being of the seven, we stayed with him.

And the foreigners showed us not the common kindness. For they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us, because of the rain coming on, and because of the cold.

In the quarters about that place were lands to the chief of the island, whose name was Publius. Welcoming us, he lodged us courteously three days.

Speak, you who ride on white asses, you who sit in judgment and walk by the way.

Did you not ask those who go by the way? And do you not know their signs,

The highways lie waste, the traveler ceases. He has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He cared for no man.