Bible verses about Hospitality
Verses that encourage welcoming strangers and showing kindness to guests.
Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Romans 12:13Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
1 Peter 4:9Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.
Luke 14:12But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
Luke 14:13and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Luke 14:14For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
Matthew 25:35He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luke 10:34An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
1 Timothy 3:2Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
Titus 1:8Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you.
3 John 1:5Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
3 John 1:8He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.
Matthew 10:40And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
Matthew 10:42Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Isaiah 58:7The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
Acts 28:2Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 18:4