29 Bible Verses about Hospitality

distributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

Be hospitable to one another, without grudging;

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,

but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

well reported of for good works: if she brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she followed after every good work.

Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your own flesh?

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

And he answered, You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them so that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. And he prepared a great feast 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 your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

and you shall be blessed, for they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.

Let a little water, I pray, be brought, and wash Your feet, and rest under the tree.

and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant's house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street.

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

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

And Manoah said to the Angel of Jehovah, I pray You, let us keep You until we have made a kid ready for You.

And the old man said, Peace be with you. Yet all that you lack shall be on me. Only do not stay in the street.

And the day came when Elisha passed over to Shunem. And a great woman was there. And she laid hold on him to eat bread. And it happened, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

And at my table were a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those who came to us from among the nations around us.

The stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler.

And when she was baptized, she and her household, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. And she constrained us.

And bringing them up to the house, he set a table before them and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.

And the next day those around him going out, Paul came to Caesarea. And entering the house of Philip the evangelist, he being of the seven, we stayed with him.

And the foreigners showed us not the common kindness. For they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us, because of the rain coming on, and because of the cold.

In the quarters about that place were lands to the chief of the island, whose name was Publius. Welcoming us, he lodged us courteously three days.