Bible verses about "hospitality" | YLT

⁴¹ for whoever may give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward;

² and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

² that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you—for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.

²³ and all, whatever ye may do—out of soul work—as to the Lord, and not to men, ²⁴ having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance—for the Lord Christ ye serve;

¹⁰ in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

² it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

⁷ with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

¹² And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee; ¹³ but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind, ¹⁴ and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

⁸ but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

³⁴ as a native among you is the sojourner to you who is sojourning with you, and thou hast had love to him as to thyself, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

³⁴ `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; <sup>35</sup> for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; <sup>36</sup> naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me. <sup>37</sup> `Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink? ³⁸ and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around? ³⁹ and when did we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee? ⁴⁰ `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren—the least—to me ye did it . <sup>41</sup> Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; <sup>42</sup> for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; <sup>43</sup> a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. <sup>44</sup> `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee? ⁴⁵ `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these, the least, ye did it not to me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

¹³ to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

⁹ hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

² of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;