Hebrews 13:2

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for some have unknowingly entertained angels. Welcoming others may bring unexpected blessing and honors God.

Cross-references · 19

• Matt 25:35for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
• Gen 18:1Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
• 1 Pet 4:9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
• Rom 12:13contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
• Matt 25:43I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
• Lev 19:34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
• Deut 10:18–19He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
• 1 Kgs 17:10–16So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
• Titus 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
• Job 31:32(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
• Judg 13:15–25Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
• Isa 58:7Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• 1 Tim 5:10being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
• 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• 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.
• Acts 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
• Job 31:19if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
• 2 Kgs 4:8One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

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