20 Bible Verses About Homelessness

The Bible describes people without shelter plainly and commands God’s people to take them in. Job 24:8 shows the poor hugging the rocks “for lack of shelter,” Isaiah 58:7 calls for sheltering “the poor wanderer,” and Jesus has “no place to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20). The law ties care for the stranger to Israel’s own history: “you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19). In the New Testament, Jesus counts welcoming a stranger as welcoming him (Matthew 25:35-40), and…