2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)The design of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works . Now the apostle calls the believing Hebrews to the performance of many excellent duties, in which it becomes Christians to excel. I. To brotherly love (Heb. 13:1), by which he does not only mean a general affection to all men, as our brethren by nature, all made of the same b…
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