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20 Bible Verses About Homelessness

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Summary

  • Job 24:7-8 describes the poor sleeping in the cold and rain and hugging the rocks “for lack of shelter,” driven there by people who steal land and livestock.
  • Isaiah 58:7 names providing “the poor wanderer with shelter” as part of the fast God chooses, answering people who fasted while exploiting their workers.
  • Deuteronomy 10:19 grounds love for the foreigner in Israel’s own past: “you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.”
  • Jesus says he has “no place to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20), and Paul says the apostles are homeless (1 Corinthians 4:11).
  • In Matthew 25:35-40, inviting in a stranger is counted as doing it for the King himself.

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…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 5381, φιλοξενία (philoxenia): love of strangers, hospitality. biblehub.com/greek/5381

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