43 Bible Verses about distance
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The place Jehovah your God will choose to put his name may be too far away. He may bless you with so much that you cannot carry the tithe of your income that far.
You should keep a space of a thousand yards between you and the ark. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way before.
You will see the land at a distance, but you will not go into the land I am giving the sons of Israel.
The women watching from afar included: Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,
They seized him and led him away. They took him to the high priest's house. Peter followed from a distance.
But the people continued to stand at a distance. Only Moses went near the dark cloud where God was.
If so, exchange the tenth part of your income for silver. Take the silver with you, and go to the place Jehovah your God will choose.
The winepress was trampled outside the city. Blood came out of the winepress as high up as the horse bridles for a distance of one hundred and eighty miles.
But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. (as far as the sunrise is from the sunset) (farther then one could ever travel)
He went to his father. He was a long way from home when his father saw him. His heart filled with pity. He ran and threw his arms around his son and kissed him.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is his mercy toward those who reverence him.
The women who followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to him watched from a distance.
A large herd of swine was feeding in the distance.
My loved ones and my friends keep their distance and my relatives stand far away because of my sickness.
He saw a fig tree far off. When he got closer he found nothing but leaves for it was not the season of figs.
My husband is not at home. He went on a long trip.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Even though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit (mental disposition). I am glad when I see the resolute firmness with which you stand together in your faith in Christ.
Then David crossed over to the other side of the valley. He went to the top of the hill a great distance away.
Jehovah said to Moses: You and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders come up the mountain to me and worship at a distance.
So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping. The cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.
and fifty of the prophets followed them to the Jordan. Elijah and Elisha stopped by the river. The fifty prophets stood a short distance away.
In one hour these great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off,
Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and does not trust the sound of the ram's horn.
Moses used to take a tent and set it up far outside the camp. He called it the tent of meeting. Anyone who was seeking Jehovah's will used to go outside the camp to the tent of meeting.
He was in great torment in the grave (hades). He looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.
The city will measure about thirty-one thousand five hundred feet all the way around. From then on the city's name will be: Jehovah Is There.
The people heard the thunder and the trumpet blast. They saw the lightning and the smoking mountain. They trembled with fear and stood at a distance.
She sat across from him at a distance. She thought: I cannot watch the boy die. She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.
But Peter kept his distance. He followed him to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the servants, to see the outcome.
The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing.
Topics on Distance
Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4Two days later Abraham saw the place in the distance.
Standing At A Distance
Exodus 2:4The baby's sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.