Be
joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with
the Lord's people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Share with the Lord's people who are in need
Acts 24:17 "After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings."
Acts 11:29-30 The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea. This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
Romans 15:26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord's people in Jerusalem.
Galatians 2:10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
Practice hospitality
2 Kings 4:10 "Let's make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table and a chair and a lamp for him (Elisha). Then he can stay here whenever he comes to us."
Job 31:32 "... but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler--..."
1 Timothy 3:2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, ...
1 Timothy 5:9-10 No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband, and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord's people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.
Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
1 Peter 4:9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.
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