Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.
Parallel translations
- WEB Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
- KJV Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
- BSB Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
- NKJV Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
- NASB Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
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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 13:2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Rom 12:13contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
- Phil 2:14Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
- Heb 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
- 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
- 2 Cor 9:7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
- Titus 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
- Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
- Phlm 1:14But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
- Rom 16:23Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
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