18 Bible Verses about Hospitality

Relieving the wants of Christ's People; devoted to hospitality.

Never grudge hospitality to one another.

The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher,

On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint,

and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action.

Do not neglect to show hospitality; for, through being hospitable, men have all unawares entertained angels.

No, when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

Rather--'If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him to drink. By doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head.'

And then you will be happy indeed, since they cannot recompense you; for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the good."

And, when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us to become her guests. "Since you have shown your conviction," she said, "that I really am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she insisted on our doing so.

Afterwards he took them up to his house and set before them something to eat, rejoicing that he, with all his household, had come to believe in God.

The next day we left, and reached Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip, the Missionary, who was one of 'the Seven,' and stayed with him.

The natives showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold.

In that neighborhood there was an estate belonging to the Governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He took us up to his house, and for three days entertained us most courteously.