18 Bible Verses about Hospitality

Be liberal to needy saints. Practise hospitality.

Be hospitable to one another, without grudging.

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.

She must be well reputed for good works, as one who has brought up a family, received strangers with hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved the distressed, and diligently followed every good work.

Do not neglect to show hospitality; for by it some have even entertained angels unawares.

"But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

On the contrary, therefore, If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will be heaping burning coals on his head.

"Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

When she was baptized, and her household, she urged us, saying, "If in your judgment I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she compelled us to come.

And after bringing them up into his house, he set food before them, overjoyed with all his household in having believed in God.

On the morrow we started for Caesarea, where we went into the house of Philip, the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

The foreign-speaking people showed us uncommon kindness, for they lighted a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain and because of the cold.

Now in the neighborhood there were estates belonging to the governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He received us and entertained us for three days courteously.