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Matthew 25:35
“‘ For 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;
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Genesis 18:1-19:3
The LORD appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, bowed to the ground,and said,“ My lord, if I have found favor with you, please do not go on past your servant.Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. Later, you can continue on.”“ Yes,” they replied,“ do as you have said.”So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah,“ Quick! Knead three measures of fine flour and make bread.”Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.Then Abraham took curds and milk, as well as the calf that he had prepared, and set them before the men. He served them as they ate under the tree.“ Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him.“ There, in the tent,” he answered.The LORD said,“ I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.So she laughed to herself:“ After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I have delight?”But the LORD asked Abraham,“ Why did Sarah laugh, saying,‘ Can I really have a baby when I’m old?’Is anything impossible for the LORD? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”Sarah denied it.“ I did not laugh,” she said, because she was afraid. But he replied,“ No, you did laugh.”The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.Then the LORD said,“ Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what he promised him.”Then the LORD said,“ The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to me. If not, I will find out.”The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the LORD.Abraham stepped forward and said,“ Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people who are in it?You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just?”The LORD said,“ If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”Then Abraham answered,“ Since I have ventured to speak to my lord— even though I am dust and ashes—suppose the fifty righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” He replied,“ I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”Then he spoke to him again,“ Suppose forty are found there?” He answered,“ I will not do it on account of forty.”Then he said,“ Let my lord not be angry, and I will speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He answered,“ I will not do it if I find thirty there.”Then he said,“ Since I have ventured to speak to my lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He replied,“ I will not destroy it on account of twenty.”Then he said,“ Let my lord not be angry, and I will speak one more time. Suppose ten are found there?” He answered,“ I will not destroy it on account of ten.”When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he departed, and Abraham returned to his place.The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the groundand said,“ My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”“ No,” they said.“ We would rather spend the night in the square.”But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.
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1 Peter 4 9
Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
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Romans 12:13
Share with the saints in their needs; pursue hospitality.
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Titus 1:8
but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, self-controlled,
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1 Kings 17 10-1 Kings 17 16
So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. Elijah called to her and said,“ Please bring me a little water in a cup and let me drink.”As she went to get it, he called to her and said,“ Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”But she said,“ As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked— only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”Then Elijah said to her,“ Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son,for this is what the LORD God of Israel says,‘ The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the surface of the land.’”So she proceeded to do according to the word of Elijah. Then the woman, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.The flour jar did not become empty, and the oil jug did not run dry, according to the word of the LORD he had spoken through Elijah.
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Job 31:32
No stranger had to spend the night on the street, for I opened my door to the traveler.
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1 Timothy 3 2
An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger and you didn’t take me in; I was naked and you didn’t clothe me, sick and in prison and you didn’t take care of me.’
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Romans 16:23
Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.
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Deuteronomy 10:18-19
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.You are also to love the resident alien, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.
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1 Timothy 5 10
and is well known for good works— that is, if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints’ feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to every good work.
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Acts 16:15
After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“ If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
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Judges 13:15-25
“ Please stay here,” Manoah told him,“ and we will prepare a young goat for you.”The angel of the LORD said to him,“ If I stay, I won’t eat your food. But if you want to prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.”( Manoah did not know he was the angel of the LORD.)Then Manoah said to him,“ What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?”“ Why do you ask my name,” the angel of the LORD asked him,“ since it is beyond understanding?”Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD, who did something miraculous while Manoah and his wife were watching.When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD went up in its flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown on the ground.The angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the angel of the LORD.“ We’re certainly going to die,” he said to his wife,“ because we have seen God!”But his wife said to him,“ If the LORD had intended to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us, and he would not have shown us all these things or spoken to us like this.”So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.Then the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in the Camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Matthew 25:40
“ And the King will answer them,‘ Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?
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Leviticus 19:34
You will regard the alien who resides with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
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Job 31:19
if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothing or a needy person without a cloak,
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2 Kings 4 8
One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.