Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
Parallel translations
- WEB Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
- KJV Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
- NKJV Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
- NASB Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
- NLT Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.
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Quick answer
Believers should welcome one another with hospitality and without complaining. It applies practical love to the everyday sharing of homes and resources.
Overview
Hospitality was vital in the early church, where traveling believers and gatherings depended on open homes. Peter adds 'without grumbling,' guarding against a generosity that is grudging or resentful. Cheerful hospitality is a concrete outworking of the love commanded in verse 8.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Heb 13:2Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Rom 12:13Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
- Phil 2:14Do everything without complaining or arguing,
- Heb 13:16And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
- 1 Tim 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- 2 Cor 9:7Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
- Titus 1:8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
- Jas 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
- Phlm 1:14But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.
- Rom 16:23Gaius, who has hosted me and all the church, sends you greetings. Erastus, the city treasurer, sends you greetings, as does our brother Quartus.
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