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15 Bible Verses About Moving to a New Place

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  • Genesis 12:1 gives Abram his destination only as “the land I will show you,” and Hebrews 11:8 says he went without knowing where he was going.
  • The promise attached to journeys in Genesis 28:15, Deuteronomy 31:8 and Joshua 1:9 is God’s company, with Genesis 28:15 and Joshua 1:9 both saying “wherever you go.”
  • Jeremiah 29:5-7 tells exiles in Babylon to build houses, plant gardens and pray for the city, and Jeremiah 29:11 comes in the same letter, after a promise of return when seventy years are completed.
  • James 4:13-15 addresses people planning a year in another city and tells them to say “If it is the Lord’s will.”
  • Leviticus 19:34 commands Israel to love the foreigner living among them as themselves, because “you were foreigners in Egypt.”

Moves in the Bible start with a command, a threat or a famine, and several come with a promise that God will go with the people who make them. Abram is sent to “the land I will show you” (Genesis 12:1), and Jacob is told “I am with you” as he flees to Harran (Genesis 28:15). Other passages deal with the practical side. Jeremiah 29:5-7 tells exiles in Babylon to build houses and pray for the city they have been…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 5381, φιλοξενία (philoxenia): hospitality; NAS Exhaustive Concordance definition “love of strangers.” biblehub.com/greek/5381

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