18 Bible Verses about Hospitality

Relieve the necessities of God's people; always practise hospitality.

Extend ungrudging hospitality towards one another.

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

but hospitable to strangers, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, upright, saintly, self-controlled;

She must have been true to her one husband, and well reported of for good deeds, as having brought up children, received strangers hospitably, washed the feet of God's people, given relief to the distressed, and devoted herself to good works of every kind.

Do not neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.

But when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;

On the contrary, therefore, if your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, quench his thirst. For by doing this you will be heaping burning coals upon his head.

and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous."

When she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If in your judgement I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she made us go there.

and bringing the Apostles up into his house, he spread a meal for them, and was filled with gladness, with his whole household, his faith resting on God.

On the morrow we left Ptolemais and went on to Caesarea, where we came to the house of Philip the Evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

The strange-speaking natives showed us remarkable kindness, for they lighted a fire and made us all welcome because of the pelting rain and the cold.

Now in the same part of the island there were estates belonging to the Governor, whose name was Publius. He welcomed us to his house, and for three days generously made us his guests.