1 Peter 4:9

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Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

administer to the necessities of the saints; be careful to entertain strangers;

Gains, my host, and the host of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus the treasurer of the city, and Quartus, my brother, salute you.

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for, by this means, some have unconsciously entertained angels.

Let each one give, as he purposes in his heart; not with grief, nor from necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

but, without your consent, I was not willing to do any thing, that your good deed might not be as a matter of necessity, but one of free-will.

Indulge not in complaints against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.