1 Peter 4:9
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
BSB
ASV
using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
KJV
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
CATENA (444)
Those who offer hospitality to others make themselves happy and content, not so much because they are giving of their own as because they are being helped by others. And this in two ways; first, because they enjoy the company of their guests, and second, because they earn a reward for their hospitality. But if you receive a brother, do not be distracted by too much serving, and do not attempt what is beyond your strength. Unnecessary effort is always tedious, and such exertions will only embarrass your guests.
The proper objects of Christian hospitality are one another. The nearness of their relation, and the necessity of their condition in those times of persecution and distress, obliged Christians to be hospitable one to another. Sometimes Christians were spoiled of all they had, and were driven away to distant countries for safety.
Use hospitality one to another - On the duty of hospitality, see the Rom 12:13 note; Heb 13:2 note. Without grudging - Greek, “without murmurs;” that is, without complaining of the hardship of doing it; of the time, and expense, and trouble required in doing it. The idea of grudging, in the common sense of that word - that is, of doing it unwillingly, or regretting the expense, and considering it as ill-bestowed, or as not producing an equivalent of any kind - is not exactly the idea here.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Hebrews 13:16And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
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Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.
Continue in brotherly love.
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Hebrews 13:2Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
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For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
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Philippians 2:14Do everything without complaining or arguing,
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And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
