29 Bible Verses about Hospitality

sharing for the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.

Lovingly be hospitable one to another without murmuring.

It is expedient, therefore, that the bishop be blameless, the husband of only one wife, vigilant, temperate, of worldly affections mortified, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, temperate, just, holy, gentle,

having a good testimony of good works, if she has brought up well her children, if she has exercised hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

Do not forget to show hospitality; for thereby some, having entertained angels, were kept.

Is it not to share thy bread with the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out into thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou not hide thyself from thy brother?

But when thou makest a banquet, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,

And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them; would thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and return 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. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

Therefore, if thine enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

and thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Let a little water, I pray you, be brought and wash your feet and rest yourselves under a tree;

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

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; why dost thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and the place for the camels.

And he said unto 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 unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

And the old man said, Peace be with thee; let all thy needs be upon me; only do not pass the night in the plaza.

And it also happened that one day Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was an important 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.

I also had at my table one hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those that came unto us from among the Gentiles that are around us.

The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller.

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

And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

And the next day Paul and those of us that were with him departed and came unto Caesarea; and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and abode with him.

And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness; for they kindled a great fire and received all of us because of the present rain and because of the cold.

In the same quarters were possessions of a principal man of the island, whose name was Publius, who received us and lodged us three days courteously.