Matthew 10:11
Good News Translation
"When you come to a town or village, go in and look for someone who is willing to welcome you, and stay with him until you leave that place.

New Revised Standard Version
Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave.

Contemporary English Version
So when you go to a town or a village, find someone able and willing to have you as their guest and stay with them until you leave.

New American Bible
Whatever town or village you enter, look for a worthy person in it, and stay there until you leave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till you go thence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till you go thence.

enquire.

Genesis 19:1-3 And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground. . . .

Judges 19:16-21 And behold they saw an old man, returning out of the field and from his work in the evening, and he also was of mount Ephraim, and dwelt as a stranger in Gabaa; but the men of that country were the children of Jemini. . . .

1 Kings 17:9 Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

*etc:

Job 31:32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.

Luke 10:38-42 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. . . .

Luke 19:7 And when all saw it, they murmured, saying, that he was gone to be a guest with a man that was a sinner.

Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us.

Acts 18:1-3 After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth. . . .

3 John 1:7,8 Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the Gentiles. . . .

and there.

Mark 6:10 And he said to them: Wheresoever you shall enter into an house, there abide till you depart from that place.

Luke 9:4 And whatsoever house you shall enter into, abide there and depart not from thence.

Luke 10:7,8 And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house. . . .

Context
The Ministry of the Twelve
10Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat. 11And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till you go thence. 12And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to this house.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:10
Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Matthew 10:12
And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to this house.

Matthew 10:10
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