1 Peter 4:9
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
In Context
8Above all, maintain a deep love for one another, because love will cover a multitude of sins.
Cross References
Romans 12:13Contribute to the needs of the saints, and pursue hospitality.
2 Corinthians 9:7Each person should give as he decides in his heart, not with sadness or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
1 Timothy 3:2Therefore the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Philemon 1:14But I did not want to do anything without yoʋr consent, so that yoʋr good deed would not be done out of compulsion but of yoʋr own free will.
Hebrews 13:16Do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 4:8-12
Sobriety, Watchfulness, and Charity; Improvement of Talents. ( a. d. 66.) 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging. 10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man… Read the whole commentary →