HOSPITALITY

Passages on this topic · 179

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 14:18

  Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

• Genesis 18:1

  Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

• Genesis 18:2

  He 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,

• Genesis 18:3

  and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

• Genesis 18:4

  Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

• Genesis 18:5

  I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

• Genesis 18:6

  Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

• Genesis 18:7

  Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

• Genesis 18:8

  He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

• Genesis 19:1

  The 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,

• Genesis 19:2

  and he said, “See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”

• Genesis 19:3

  He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

• Genesis 19:4

  But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

• Genesis 19:5

  They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

• Genesis 19:6

  Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

• Genesis 19:7

  He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.

• Genesis 19:8

  See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

• Genesis 19:9

  They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

• Genesis 19:10

  But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

• Genesis 19:11

  They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

• Genesis 20:14

  Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

• Genesis 20:15

  Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

• Genesis 23:6

  “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:11

  “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

• Genesis 24:31

  He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

• Genesis 26:30

  He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

• Genesis 29:14

  Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.

• Genesis 43:31

  He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Genesis 43:33

  They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.

• Genesis 43:34

  He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

• Genesis 45:16

  The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

• Genesis 45:17

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 45:18

  Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

• Genesis 45:19

  Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

• Genesis 45:20

  Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

• Genesis 47:7

  Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

• Genesis 47:8

  Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”

• Genesis 47:9

  Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

• Genesis 47:10

  Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

• Genesis 47:11

  Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

• Genesis 47:12

  Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

• Exodus 2:20

  He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

• Exodus 22:21

  “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 23:9

  “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

• Leviticus 19:10

  You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 19:33

  “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

• Leviticus 19:34

  The 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.

• Leviticus 24:22

  You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

• Deuteronomy 10:18

  He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

• Deuteronomy 10:19

  Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 26:12

  When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.

• Deuteronomy 26:13

  You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

• Deuteronomy 27:19

  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Joshua 2:1

  Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

• Joshua 2:2

  The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”

• Joshua 2:3

  Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”

• Joshua 2:4

  The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.

• Joshua 2:5

  About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

• Joshua 2:7

  The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

• Joshua 2:8

  Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.

• Joshua 2:9

  She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

• Joshua 2:10

  For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

• Joshua 2:11

  As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

• Joshua 2:12

  Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

• Joshua 2:13

  and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

• Joshua 2:14

  The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

• Joshua 2:15

  Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

• Joshua 2:16

  She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”

• Joshua 6:17

  The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

• Joshua 6:22

  Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”

• Joshua 6:23

  The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

• Joshua 6:24

  They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.

• Joshua 6:25

  But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

• Judges 19:16

  Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

• Judges 19:17

  He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”

• Judges 19:18

  He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

• Judges 19:19

  Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”

• Judges 19:20

  The old man said, “Peace be to you; how ever let me supply all your needs. Just don’t sleep in the street.”

• Judges 19:21

  So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

• 2 Samuel 9:7

  David said to him, “Don’t be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

• 2 Samuel 9:9

  Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.

• 2 Samuel 9:10

  Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

• 2 Samuel 9:11

  Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.

• 2 Samuel 9:12

  Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 9:13

  So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.

• 1 Kings 11:17

  Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.

• 1 Kings 11:22

  Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?” He answered, “Nothing, however only let me depart.”

• 1 Kings 17:10

  So 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.”

• 1 Kings 17:11

  As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:13

  Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”

• 1 Kings 17:15

  She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil did not fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

• 1 Kings 17:17

  After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

• 1 Kings 17:18

  She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

• 1 Kings 17:19

  He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

• 1 Kings 17:20

  He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

• 1 Kings 17:21

  He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

• 1 Kings 17:22

  Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

• 1 Kings 17:23

  Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

• 1 Kings 17:24

  The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

• 2 Kings 4:8

  One 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.

• 2 Kings 6:22

  He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

• Job 31:32

  (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

• Proverbs 9:1

  Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.

• Proverbs 9:2

  She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

• Proverbs 9:3

  She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

• Proverbs 9:4

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

• Proverbs 9:5

  “Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

• Proverbs 23:6

  Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

• Proverbs 23:7

  for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

• Proverbs 23:8

  The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

• Isaiah 58:6

  “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

• Isaiah 58:7

  Isn’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?

• Matthew 22:2

  “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

• Matthew 22:3

  and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

• Matthew 22:4

  Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’

• Matthew 22:5

  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

• Matthew 22:6

  and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

• Matthew 22:7

  When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

• Matthew 22:8

  “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.

• Matthew 22:9

  Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’

• Matthew 22:10

  Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

• Matthew 25:34

  Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

• Matthew 25:35

  for 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.

• Matthew 25:36

  I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:37

  “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

• Matthew 25:38

  When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:39

  When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

• Matthew 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.’

• Matthew 25:41

  Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

• Matthew 25:42

  for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

• Matthew 25:43

  I 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.’

• Matthew 25:44

  “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

• Matthew 25:45

  “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

• Matthew 25:46

  These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

• Luke 10:38

  As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

• Luke 11:37

  Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

• Luke 11:38

  When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

• Luke 14:12

  He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

• Luke 14:13

  But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

• Luke 14:14

  and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

• Luke 19:1

  He entered and was passing through Jericho.

• Luke 19:2

  There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

• Luke 19:3

  He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.

• Luke 19:4

  He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.

• Luke 19:5

  When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

• Luke 19:6

  He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

• Luke 19:7

  When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

• Luke 19:8

  Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

• Luke 19:9

  Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

• Luke 19:10

  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

• John 12:1

  Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

• John 12:2

  So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

• Acts 10:6

  He lodges with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.

• Acts 10:23

  So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

• Acts 16:15

  When 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.

• Acts 28:2

  The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

• Romans 12:13

  contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

• Romans 16:1

  I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

• Romans 16:2

  that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

• 1 Timothy 5:10

  being 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.

• 2 Timothy 1:16

  May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

• Titus 1:7

  For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

• Titus 1:8

  but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

• Hebrews 13:2

  Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

• 1 Peter 4:9

  Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

• 1 Peter 4:11

  If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

• 3 John 1:5

  Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

• 3 John 1:6

  They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

• 3 John 1:7

  because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

• 3 John 1:8

  We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.