1 Peter 4:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

1 Peter 4:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Romans 12:13
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Hebrews 13:16
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Topics

Aliens Commandments Discipleship Disobedience to God Duty Guest Hospitality Inhospitableness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-11)

We have here an awful position or doctrine, and an inference drawn from it. The position is that the end of all things is at hand. The miserable destruction of the Jewish church and nation foretold by our Saviour is now very near; consequently, the time of their persecution and your sufferings is but very short. Your own life and that of your enemies will soon come to their utmost period. Nay, the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. (Ro 12:13; He 13:2.) Not the spurious hospitality which passes current in the world, but the entertaining of those needing it, especially those exiled for the faith, as the representatives of Christ, and all hospitality to whomsoever exercised from genuine Christian love. without grudging--Greek, “murmuring.” “He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity,” that is open-hearted sincerity; with…