Friends
Welcome
Welcome makes room at the table. Jesus welcomed children, strangers, and people others avoided.
1. Genesis 23:4
““I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.””
2. 1 Chronicles 29:15
“For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.”
3. Jeremiah 51:2
“I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.”
4. Hosea 7:9
“Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.”
5. Psalms 39:12
““Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.”
6. 1 Kings 3:18
“The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.”
7. Leviticus 22:10
““‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.”
8. Acts 17:21
“Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 23:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Iamaandaforeignerwithyou.Givemeapossessionofaburying-placewithyou,thatImayburymyoutofmysight.”