Quotes about Hospitality
Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
- Proverbs 25:17
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
- Proverbs 25:21
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
- Proverbs 27:27
She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
- Proverbs 31:15
I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
- Song of Solomon 8:2
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
- Isaiah 5:17
They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
- Isaiah 21:5
Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
- Isaiah 21:14
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
- Isaiah 58:7
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
- Isaiah 61:5
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
- Jeremiah 16:8
“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”
- Jeremiah 35:2