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16 Bible Verses About Leaving Home

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  • God’s call to Abram in Genesis 12:1 names what he must leave (country, people and father’s household) but not where he is going, and Hebrews 11:8 stresses that he “did not know where he was going.”
  • Genesis 28:15 was spoken to Jacob one night on the road, after he fled his brother Esau, and promises to bring him back to the land.
  • Genesis 2:24 places leaving father and mother before being united to a wife, and Ruth 1:16-17 records Ruth leaving her own people and gods to go with Naomi.
  • Peter’s question in Matthew 19:27, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”, draws the promise of a hundredfold return in Matthew 19:29.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles in Babylon who had just been told to build houses and seek the peace of the city where they lived.

The Bible describes leaving home at God’s call, to marry, to follow Jesus, and in exile. Abraham leaves at God’s word in Genesis 12:1 and Hebrews 11:8-10, and Ruth leaves her people for Naomi’s in Ruth 1:16-17. Genesis 2:24 describes leaving father and mother to marry, and Matthew 4:19-20, Luke 9:57-58 and Matthew 19:29 record what the disciples left behind. Several of the promises below were spoken to people on the point of departure: to Jacob on the road to…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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