Bible Verses About Hospitality: General references

"'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!'

But they weren't interested and went off, one to his farm, another to his business;

and the rest grabbed his slaves, mistreated them and killed them.

The king was furious and sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.

"Then he said to his slaves, `Well, the wedding feast is ready; but the ones who were invited didn't deserve it.

So go out to the street-corners and invite to the banquet as many as you find.'

The slaves went out into the streets, gathered all the people they could find, the bad along with the good; and the wedding hall was filled with guests.