43 Bible Verses about distance
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And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,
Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before."
For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel."
There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.

They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Then David went over to the other side and stood far off on the top of the hill, with a great space between them.
Then he said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.
so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.
Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.
For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste."And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The LORD Is There."
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end.
The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
Topics on Distance
Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
Standing At A Distance
Exodus 2:4And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.