18 Bible Verses about Hospitality

always supplying the needs of God's people, ever practicing hospitality.

Be ungrudgingly hospitable to one another.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

must have a reputation for doing good deeds, as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any sort of doing good.

Do not remain neglectful of hospitality to strangers, for by it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

But when you give a reception, make it your habit to invite people that are poor, maimed, crippled, or blind.

Do the opposite. If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for if you act in this way, you will heap burning coals upon his head!

Then you will be happy, because they cannot repay you; you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us by continuing to say, "If you have made up your mind that I am a real believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she continued to insist that we do so.

Then he took them up to his house and gave them food, and he and all the members of his household were happy in their faith in God.

The next day we left there and went on to Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.

Now the natives showed us remarkable kindness, for they made us a fire and welcomed us to it because of the downpouring rain and the cold.

The governor of the island, whose name was Publius, owned estates in that part of the island, and he welcomed us and entertained us with hearty hospitality for three days.