18 Bible Verses about Hospitality

Relieve the wants of the holy; be given to hospitality.

Be hospitable to one another without grudging.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;

but hospitable, a lover of what is good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

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

Therefore, "if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. For in so doing thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head."

and thou shalt be blessed, because they cannot recompense thee; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the righteous.

And when she had been baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be a believer in the Lord, come into my house, and abide. And she constrained us.

And when he had brought them up into his house, he set food before them, and rejoiced with all his house, having become a believer in God.

And on the morrow we departed, and came to Caesarea; and entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we stayed with him.

And the barbarians showed us no little kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the rain which had come on, and because of the cold.

And in the neighborhood of that place were lands be longing to the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who welcomed us, and entertained us kindly three days.