8 Bible Verses about Not Welcoming People

Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

And as for those who do not receive you, as you go out from that city, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

They turned aside there in order to enter and lodge in Gibeah. When they entered, they sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.

He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, for I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to my house, and no man will take me into his house.

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of the Lord and concerning all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.

For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts 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 a greeting;