contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.
Parallel translations
- WEB contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
- KJV Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
- BSB Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
- NKJV distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.
- NLT When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.
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Quick answer
Share with fellow believers in need and pursue hospitality.
Overview
Paul makes love practical: meeting the material needs of fellow saints and eagerly welcoming others, 'given to hospitality.' These were vital in the early church, where travelers and the poor depended on believers' generosity. Such open-handed care embodies the gospel's transforming power in concrete acts.
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Cross-references · 25
- Heb 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
- 2 Cor 9:12For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;
- 1 Jn 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- Gal 6:10So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
- Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- 1 Pet 4:9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
- Heb 13:2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
- Titus 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
- 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.
- 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.
- Phlm 1:7For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
- Acts 20:34–35You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
- 1 Cor 16:1–2Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.
- 2 Cor 8:1–4Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
- Acts 10:4He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
- Acts 4:35and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.
- 1 Cor 16:15Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),
- Ps 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
- 2 Cor 9:1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
- Rom 12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
- Rom 15:25–28But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
- Acts 9:36–41Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
- Gen 18:2–8He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
- Gen 19:1–3The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
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