43 Bible Verses about distance
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When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,
But stay about three thousand feet behind it. Keep your distance so you can see which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before."
You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites."
There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.
The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.
Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses' bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.
The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'
As far as the eastern horizon is from the west, so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.
So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.
For as the skies are high above the earth, so his loyal love towers over his faithful followers.
Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support were also there, watching from a distance.
Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.
After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Now Joseph's brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.
Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?" the Lord asks.
These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.
For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.
But to Moses the Lord said, "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.
People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people's weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly that the sound was heard a long way off.
The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha stood by the Jordan.
because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!" And every ship's captain, and all who sail along the coast -- seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off
In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.
Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone seeking the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.
And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.
The circumference of the city will be six miles. The name of the city from that day forward will be: 'The Lord Is There.'"
All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking -- and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, "I refuse to watch the child die." So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.
But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest's courtyard. After going in, he sat with the guards to see the outcome.
The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
Topics on Distance
Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.
Standing At A Distance
Exodus 2:4His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.