So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,
No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.
No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.
So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the temple of the Lord.
When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.
Then Samuel took Saul and his servant into the guest room, and made them take the chief place among all the guests who were there, about thirty persons.
And the cook took up the leg with the fat tail on it, and put it before Saul. And Samuel said, This is the part which has been kept for you: take it as your part of the feast; because it has been kept for you till the right time came and till the guests were present. So that day Saul took food with Samuel.
And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?
And all the guests of Adonijah got up in fear and went away, every man to his place.
But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother.
And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.
And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.
And Haman said further, Truly, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in to the feast which she had made ready for the king; and tomorrow again I am to be her guest with the king.
They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.
In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.
And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;
And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.
Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.
Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.
And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.
But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;
And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.
And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is my guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?
And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,
And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,
And, hearing these words, one of those who were at table with him said to him, happy is the man who will be a guest in the kingdom of God.
And say to the master of the house, The Master says, Where is the guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?
For which is greater, the guest who is seated at a meal or the servant who is waiting on him? is it not the guest? but I am among you as a servant.
And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.
And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.
And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven.
Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days.
For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.
The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;
But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;
Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.
So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.
And he said to me, Put in the book, happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.
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