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Don`t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
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Hospitality as a Vital Ministry
Scholars explain that in the early church, hospitality was a vital ministry. With inns often being expensive or disreputable, providing lodging for traveling Christians, missionaries, and refugees was essential for supporting the persecuted and spreading the gospel. It was a tangible and necessary expression of Christian love.
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Hebrews
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. For a full explanation of the duty of hospitality, see Barnes on Romans 12:13.
For the…
As bound with them (ως συνδεδεμενο). Perfect passive participle of συνδεω, old verb, here only in N.T. For sympathy with prisoners…
19th Century
Anglican
To entertain strangers.—Hospitality to Christian brethren at a distance from their homes is especially intended (1 Peter 4:9);…
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Baptist
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Abraham did so, and Lot did so; they th…
To brotherly love the author adds “entertaining strangers” (lit., “love of strangers”; GK 5810). Entertaining “angels without knowing it” reminds u…
16th Century
Protestant
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, etc. This duty of humanity has also nearly ceased to be properly observed among people; …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers By whom are meant, not unconverted men, who are strangers to God and Christ,…
The purpose of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and true religion is t…
13th Century
Catholic
Having instructed them on how to bear with evil, the Apostle now tells them how to act in doing good. Therefore, according to a Gloss, he is beginn…
