18 Bible Verses about Hospitality

Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.

Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

but hospitable, a lover of what is good, master of himself, upright, holy, and self-controlled;

and she must be well known for her good deeds, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved those in distress, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,

No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."

and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

When she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.

Then he brought them up into his house, and set food before them; and he rejoiced with his whole household that he had believed in God.

On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we stayed with him.

The natives showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.