34 Bible Verses about Hospitality, Examples Of
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While Jesus was at home at table, a number of tax-collectors and irreligious people came in and joined Jesus and his disciples at table.
He was at table in his house, with many tax-collectors and irreligious people who were at table with him and his disciples, for there were many of them among his followers.
Then Levi gave a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great throng of tax-collectors and others who were at table with them.
Jesus went into Peter's house, and there he found Peter's mother-in-law sick in bed with fever. And he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and waited on him.
As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the house of Simon and Andrew. Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her. And he went up to her, and grasping her hand, he made her rise. And the fever left her, and she waited on them.
When he got up and left the synagogue, he went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was suffering with a severe attack of fever, and they asked him about her. And he stood over her and reproved the fever and it left her, and she got up and waited on them.
When Jesus got back to Bethany, to the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table.
Jesus was in Bethany, at the house of Simon the leper, and as he was at table, a woman came in, with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, very expensive; she broke the flask and poured the perfume on his head.
Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him. And Mary took a pound of choice perfume, very costly, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and then wiped his feet with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
One of the Pharisees asked him to have dinner with him, and he went to the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.
As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.
One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.
When Jesus reached the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, come down quickly! for I must stay at your house today." And he came down quickly and welcomed him gladly. And when they saw this, everyone complained, and said, "He has gone to stay with an irreligious man!"
but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.
Whatever town or village you come to, inquire for some suitable person, and stay with him till you leave the place. And as you go into his house, wish it well.
And he said to them, "Whenever you go to stay at a house, remain in it till you leave that place.
Whenever you go to stay at a house, first say, 'Peace to this household!' If there is anyone there who loves peace, your blessing will rest upon him, but if there is not, it will come back to you. Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.
So send to Joppa and invite Simon who is called Peter to come here. He is staying at the house of a tanner named Simon, close to the sea.'
And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on there a few days.
When she and her household were baptized, she appealed to us, and said, "If you are really convinced that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she insisted upon our coming.
Then he took them up to his house and offered them food, and he and all his household were very happy over their new faith in God.
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, and as they practiced the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent-makers.
The next day we left there and went on to Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip the missionary, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.
Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and took us to the house of Mnason, a man from Cyprus, one of the early disciples, to spend the night.
The natives showed us remarkable kindness, for they made a fire and welcomed us, because of the rain that had come on and the cold.
The governor of the island, whose name was Publius, had estates in that part of the island, and he welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
My host, Gaius, the host of the whole church, wishes to be remembered to you. Erastus, the city-treasurer, and our brother Quartus wish to be remembered to you.
The churches of Asia wish to be remembered to you. Aquila and Prisca, with the congregation that meets at their house, send you their special Christian greetings.
Day after day they all went regularly to the Temple, they broke their bread together in their homes, and they ate their food with glad and simple hearts,
Remember me to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in the cause of Christ Jesus, who risked their necks to save my life. Not only I but also all the churches among the heathen thank them. Remember me also to the church that meets at their house. Remember me to my dear Epaenetus, who was the first man in Asia to turn to Christ.
Remember me to the brothers in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets at her house.
and sent messengers before him. They started out and went into a Samaritan village, to make preparations for him. And the people there would not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem.
