Genesis 24:19

behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.

She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”

He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.

The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”

Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”

If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.