29 Bible Verses about Hospitality

sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers.

stranger-loving toward each other without complaints.

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good, serious minded, just, devout, self-controlled,

being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

Do not forget love for strangers, for by this some lodged heavenly agents, unaware.

Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

But when thou make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,

And he answered, Thou shall not smite them. Would thou smite those whom thou have taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? Set bread and water before them that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. And he prepared great provision for them. And when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head.

and thou will be blessed, because they do not have to recompense thee, for it will be recompensed to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.

Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all n

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of LORD. Why do thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

And Manoah said to the agent of LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.

And the old man said, Peace be to thee. However let all thy wants lay upon me, only do not lodge in the street.

And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem where there was a prominent woman. And she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by he turned in there to eat bread.

Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us.

(the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

And when she was immersed, and her household, she urged us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, after coming into my house, remain. And she constrained us.

And having brought them into his house, he set out a table, and rejoiced, having believed in God with all his house.

And on the morrow, after going forth, those around Paul came to Caesarea. And having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, being of the seven, we dwelt with him.

And the foreigners presented uncommon kindness to us, for, having kindled a fire, they received us all because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

Now among the things around that place were fields of the chief of the island, named Publius, who, having received us kindly, lodged us three days.