29 Bible Verses about Hospitality

Distribute unto the necessity of the saints, and diligently to harbour.

Be ye harborous, one to another, and that without grudging.

Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,

but harborous, one that loveth goodness, sober minded, righteous, holy, temperate,

and well reported of in good works: if she have nourished children, if she have been liberal to strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered unto them which were in adversity, if she were continually given unto all manner good works.

Be not forgetful to lodge strangers. For thereby have divers received angels into their houses unawares.

Yea, and to break the bread to the hungry; and to bring the poor that are harborless unto house; and when thou seest a naked, that thou clothe him and that thou shouldest withdraw thyself from helping thine own flesh?

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,

And he said, "Smite them not. But smite them thou takest with thine own sword and with thine own bow. But set bread and water before them, and let them eat and drink, and go to their master." And he made great ordinance before them. And when they had eaten and drunk, sent them away, and they went to their master. And so the soldiers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirst, give him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

and thou shalt be happy: For they cannot recompense thee. But thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just men."

Let a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

And he said, "See lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house; and tarry all night and wash your feet, and rise up early and go on your ways." And they said, "Nay, but we will bide in the streets all night."

And Laban said, "Come in, thou blessed of the LORD. Wherefore standest thou without? I have dressed the house and made room for the camels."

And he said unto his daughters, "Where is he? Why have ye left the man? Go call him that he may eat bread."

Then said Manoah unto the Angel of the LORD, "Grant us to tarry until we have made ready a kid and have set it before thee."

The old man said, "Peace be with thee, all that thou lackest shalt thou find with me: onely abide not in the streets all night."

And it fell on a day, that Elisha came to Shunem, where was a rich woman that took him in for to eat bread. And as oft as he came that way, he turned in thither to eat bread.

Moreover there were at my table a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, which came unto me, from among the Heathen that are about us.

I have not suffered a stranger to lie without, but opened my doors unto him.

When she was baptised, and her household, she besought us saying, "If ye think that I believe on the Lord come into my house, and abide there." And she constrained us.

When he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and joyed that he with all his household believed on God.

The next day, we that were of Paul's company, departed and came unto Caesarea. And we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven deacons, and abode with him.

and the people of the country showed us no little kindness, for they kindled a fire and received us every one because of the present rain, and because of cold.

In the same quarters, the chief man of the isle whose name was Publius, had a lordship: the same received us, and lodged us three days courteously.