'Welcomes' in the Bible
If it agrees to peace and welcomes you, then all the people found in it will serve you as forced laborers.
If no one welcomes you or listens to your words, as you leave that house or town, shake its dust off your feet.
"Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."
Then he told them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, because the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest."
But the Pharisees and the scribes kept complaining, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
because the one who welcomes him shares in his evil deeds.