Bible Verses About Hospitality

and said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, please don't leave your servant.

Please let me send for some water, so that you can wash your feet; then rest under the tree,

and I will bring a piece of bread. Now that you have come to your servant, refresh yourselves before going on.""Very well," they replied, "do what you have said."

Avraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, three measures of the best flour! Knead it and make cakes."

Avraham ran to the herd, took a good, tender calf and gave it to the servant, who hurried to prepare it.

Then he took curds, milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it all before the men; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.

"'If a foreigner stays with you in your land, do not do him wrong.

Rather, treat the foreigner staying with you like the native-born among you - you are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am ADONAI your God.

He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Therefore you are to love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

"After you have separated a tenth of the crops yielded in the third year, the year of separating a tenth, and have given it to the Levi, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, so that they can have enough food to satisfy them while staying with you;

you are to say, in the presence of ADONAI your God, 'I have rid my house of the things set aside for God and given them to the Levi, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, in keeping with every one of the mitzvot you gave me. I haven't disobeyed any of your mitzvot or forgotten them.

Wisdom has built herself a house; she has carved her seven pillars.

She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table.

She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city,

"Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!"To someone weak-willed she says,

"Come and eat my food! Drink the wine I have mixed!

Don't eat the food of a stingy man; don't be greedy for his delicacies.

For he is like someone who keeps accounts -"Eat! Drink!" he says to you, but he doesn't really mean it.

The little you eat you will vomit up, and your compliments will have been wasted.

"Here is the sort of fast I want - releasing those unjustly bound, untying the thongs of the yoke, letting the oppressed go free, breaking every yoke,

sharing your food with the hungry, taking the homeless poor into your house, clothing the naked when you see them, fulfilling your duty to your kinsmen!"

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son,

but when he sent his slaves to summon the invited guests to the wedding, they refused to come.

So he sent some more slaves, instructing them to tell the guests, `Look, I've prepared my banquet, I've slaughtered my bulls and my fattened cattle, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding!'