Bible Verses About Hospitality
Scripture on the open door — welcoming strangers, sharing bread, and entertaining angels.
Hospitality in Scripture is love with a doorway — welcoming the stranger, sharing the table, using the home as a means of grace. It even hints that angels have been hosted unawares. These verses are for a life with an open door.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
I was a stranger, and ye took me in.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Breaking bread from house to house... with gladness and singleness of heart.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Abraham... ran to meet them... and bowed himself toward the ground.
An open door is a quiet ministry. Share your table, welcome the stranger, and do it without grudging — you may be hosting more than you know, and you are always serving Christ.
