Quotes About Hospitality

So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.

Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and He did the same with the fish.

And Peter stayed for several days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.

He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

So Peter invited them in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa.

He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

Then he brought them into his home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.

and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesarís decrees, saying that there is another king, named Jesus!”

When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.

Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven.

Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us to stay at the home of Mnason the Cypriot, an early disciple.

The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.

Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.

There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.

Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.

Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Gaius, who has hosted me and all the church, sends you greetings. Erastus, the city treasurer, sends you greetings, as does our brother Quartus.

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.

Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nympha and the church that meets at her house.

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.