Bible Verses About Temporary Stay

And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.

Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

And there they abode long time with the disciples.

And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,

And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord God.

And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth–lehem–judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.

And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.