8 Bible Verses about Not Welcoming People
Most Relevant Verses
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.
If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”
When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say,
They stopped to go in and spend the night in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one took them into their home to spend the night.
He answered him, “We’re traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I’m going to the house of the Lord. No one has taken me into his home,
The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look with your eyes and listen with your ears to everything I tell you about all the statutes and laws of the Lord’s temple. Take careful note of the entrance of the temple along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
This is why, if I come, I will remind him of the works he is doing, slandering us with malicious words. And he is not satisfied with that! He not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but he even stops those who want to do so and expels them from the church.
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home, and don’t say, “Welcome,” to him;
Bible Theasaurus
- Welcoming (4 instances)