28 Bible Verses about Staying Temporarily
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and said, "Please tell me, whose daughter [are] you? Is there a place [at] the house of your father for us to spend the night?"
Then she said to him, "We have both straw and fodder in abundance, as well as a place to spend the night."
And he said, "Behold, my lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the square."
And he said to his servant, "Come, let us approach one of these places; we will spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah."
And they turned aside there to enter [and] to spend the night at Gibeah. And they went and sat in the open square of the city, but no one {took them in to spend the night}.
The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered and said, "I came to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal. And they ate the meal and spent the night on the hill.
And he lodged there that night. Then he took {from what he had with him} a gift for Esau his brother:
So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp.
Then Laban said, "Better [that] I give her to you than I give her to another man. Stay with me."
And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.
And when he came to the place, Jesus looked up [and] said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because it is necessary [for] me to stay at your house today!"
And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is [getting] toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent." And he went in to stay with them.
And after she was baptized, and her household, she urged [us], saying, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come to my house [and] stay." And she prevailed upon us.
At the same time also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
And one [of them later] opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money--behold, it [was] in the mouth of his sack.
but when we came to the place of lodging and we opened our sacks, then behold, each one's money [was] in the mouth of his sack--our money in its [full] weight--so we have returned [with] it in our hands.
{And} on the way, at the place of overnight lodging, Yahweh encountered him and sought to kill him.
And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
And he came up [and] bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine, and he put him on his own animal [and] brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Now the day began to be far spent, and the twelve came up [and] said to him, "Send away the crowd so that they can go into the surrounding villages and farms to obtain lodging and find provisions, because we are here in a desolate place.
And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"
He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour).
And they called out [and] asked if Simon who was also called Peter was staying there as a guest.
Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon who is also called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.
And because [he] was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
Bible Theasaurus
- Staying (60 instances)
- Temporarily (39 instances)