Hebrews 13:2
Good News Translation
Remember to welcome strangers in your homes. There were some who did that and welcomed angels without knowing it.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Contemporary English Version
Be sure to welcome strangers into your home. By doing this, some people have welcomed angels as guests, without even knowing it.

New American Bible
Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

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Leviticus 19:34 But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 10:18,19 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment. . . .

1 Kings 17:10-16 He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. . . .

2 Kings 4:8 And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.

Job 31:19,32 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: . . .

Isaiah 58:7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Matthew 25:35,43 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: . . .

Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us.

Romans 12:13 Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.

Romans 16:23 Caius, my host, and the whole church saluteth you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, saluteth you: and Quartus, a brother.

1 Timothy 3:2 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

1 Timothy 5:10 Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Titus 1:8 But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

1 Peter 4:9 Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

some.

Genesis 18:2-10 And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground. . . .

Genesis 19:1-3 And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground. . . .

Judges 13:15 And Manue said to the angel of the Lord: I beseech thee to consent to my request, and let us dress a kid for thee.

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Matthew 25:40 And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

Context
Brotherly Love
1Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you. 2And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels. 3Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.

Genesis 18:2
And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.

Genesis 19:1
And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.

Isaiah 58:7
Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:

Romans 12:13
Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.

1 Timothy 3:2
It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

1 Peter 4:9
Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

3 John 1:5
Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully whatever thou dost for the brethren: and that for strangers,

Hebrews 13:1
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