Bible Verses About Hospitality: General references

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him;

as a native among you is the sojourner to you who is sojourning with you, and thou hast had love to him as to thyself, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

`And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.

`When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied,

and thou hast said before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the separated thing out of the house, and also have given it to the Levite, and to the sojourner, and to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all Thy command which Thou hast commanded me; I have not passed over from Thy commands, nor have I forgotten.

Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars--seven.

She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.

She hath sent forth her damsels, She crieth on the tops of the high places of the city:

`Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

`Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled.

Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,

For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee.

Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.

Is not this the fast that I chose--To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?

Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

`Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;

and they, having disregarded it , went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise;

and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them .

`And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;

then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy,

be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.

`And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining.