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Green's Literal Translation

1 Peter 4:9

Be hospitable to one another without murmurings,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Hospitality;   Thompson Chain Reference - Guests;   Hospitality;   Ministers;   Social Life;   Travellers;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hospitality;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gifts of the spirit;   Hospitality;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Foreigner;   Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lydia;   Peter, the Epistles of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hospitality;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Hospitality;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Spiritual Gifts;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Home;   Hospitality;   Hospitality ;   Inn;   Murmuring;   Peter Epistles of;   Roads and Travel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hospitality;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grudge;   Hospitality;   Inn;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 8;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
King James Version (1611)
Use hospitalitie one to another without grudging.
King James Version
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
English Standard Version
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
New American Standard Bible
Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
New Century Version
Open your homes to each other, without complaining.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
Berean Standard Bible
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
Contemporary English Version
Welcome people into your home and don't grumble about it.
Complete Jewish Bible
Welcome one another into your homes without grumbling.
Darby Translation
hospitable one to another, without murmuring;
Easy-to-Read Version
Open your homes to each other and share your food without complaining.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Be ye harberous one to another, without grudging.
George Lamsa Translation
Be hospitable to strangers without grudging.
Good News Translation
Open your homes to each other without complaining.
Lexham English Bible
Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
Amplified Bible
Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
American Standard Version
using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
Bible in Basic English
Keep open house for all with a glad heart;
Hebrew Names Version
Be hospitable one to another without grumbling.
International Standard Version
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.Romans 12:13; 2 Corinthians 9:7; Philippians 2:14; Hebrews 13:2;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And be lovers of guests without murmuring.
Murdock Translation
And be ye compassionate to strangers, without murmuring.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be ye harberous one to another, without grudgyng.
English Revised Version
using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
World English Bible
Be hospitable one to another without grumbling.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
Weymouth's New Testament
Extend ungrudging hospitality towards one another.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Holde ye hospitalite togidere with out grutching;
Update Bible Version
using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
Webster's Bible Translation
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
New English Translation
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
New King James Version
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
New Living Translation
Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.
New Life Bible
Be happy to have people stay for the night and eat with you.
New Revised Standard
Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Showing hospitality one to another without murmuring, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,
Revised Standard Version
Practice hospitality ungrudgingly to one another.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Be ye herberous one to another and that wt out grudginge.
Young's Literal Translation
hospitable to one another, without murmuring;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be ye herberous one to another without grudginge,
Mace New Testament (1729)
be mutually hospitable, without repining.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Invite folks into your bunkhouse if they need a cup of coffee or a cot.

Contextual Overview

7 But the end of all things has drawn near. Be of sound mind, then, and be sensible to prayers; 8 and above all things having fervent love to yourselves, "because love will cover a multitude of sins." Prov. 10:12 9 Be hospitable to one another without murmurings, 10 each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God; if anyone ministers, as by strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom is the glory and the might to the ages of the ages. Amen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hospitality: Romans 12:13, Romans 16:23, 1 Timothy 3:2, Titus 1:8, Hebrews 13:2, Hebrews 13:16

without: 2 Corinthians 9:7, Philippians 2:14, Philemon 1:14, James 5:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:2 - three Genesis 18:6 - three Genesis 24:18 - General Genesis 24:19 - General Genesis 24:25 - General Genesis 26:30 - General Deuteronomy 15:9 - thine eye Judges 19:20 - let all thy wants 1 Samuel 25:11 - Shall I then 2 Kings 4:10 - Let us 1 Chronicles 16:3 - to every one Nehemiah 5:17 - an hundred Job 31:32 - The stranger Proverbs 22:9 - He that hath a bountiful eye Isaiah 21:14 - brought Isaiah 61:3 - that he Matthew 25:14 - and delivered Matthew 25:35 - I was an Luke 19:13 - delivered Acts 10:23 - and lodged Acts 11:29 - every Romans 12:8 - giveth 1 Timothy 4:14 - Neglect 1 Timothy 5:10 - if she have lodged

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.
Genesis 4:9
And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:13
And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4:14
Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today. And I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.
Genesis 37:32
And they sent the robe reaching to the soles of his feet, and they took it to their father, and said, We have found this. Now look, is it your son's robe?
Psalms 9:12
For He remembers them, the seeker of bloodshed; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Proverbs 28:13
He who covers his sins never prospers, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall have pity.
John 8:44
You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaksfrom his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Use hospitality,.... Or, "be lovers of strangers", as the phrase may be rendered, and as it is in the Syriac version; that is, such as are of a distant country, or come from afar, and are unknown by face, especially good men, that are obliged to remove from their native country for the sake of religion, or by one providence or another; and these are to be loved: and love is to be shown them, both negatively, by not vexing them, and making them uneasy in body or mind; by not oppressing them by violence and injustice, and making any exorbitant demands upon them; or by not perverting judgment with respect to them; and positively, by directing, counselling, and advising them, and if need be, by giving them food, and raiment, and lodging: and it is what men have been led to by the very light of nature, as in the instances of Jethro the Midianite towards Moses, and the inhabitants of Melita with Publius, the chief man of the island, towards the Apostle Paul and his company; and is what God enjoined the Israelites by divers laws, since they had been strangers in the land of Egypt; and various are the exhortations to it in the New Testament; and some, by the practice of it, have entertained angels unawares, as Abraham, and Lot; and even Christ himself, as the two disciples travelling to Emmaus; and is what is highly regarded and commended by Christ, and the contrary is resented by him; and therefore it ought to be used and practised frequently; saints should inure themselves to it, be given to it, pursue and follow hard after it; :-,

:-. The apostle adds here, one to another; which clause is left out in the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; the reason of which may be, because the authors of these versions might think this not so consistent with the duty exhorted to, since the objects of it are strangers; but it should be observed, that so were these persons the apostle writes to; see 1 Peter 1:1, they were scattered about, and lived in different countries, and were strangers to one another, and therefore the clause is pertinent enough; and the sense is, that as they were in foreign countries, and at a distance one from another, whenever by any providence they were brought where each other were, that they would be hospitable to one another: and that

without grudging: food, raiment, and lodging, or what they want, whether direction or advice, thinking it no trouble to give them either; or without murmurings, as it may be rendered, as if they were burdensome, and they were too chargeable to them, and their stay too long; and without complaints of them, finding fault, and picking quarrels with them, and laying charges against them, in order to get rid of them. This is one branch of charity before recommended.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Use hospitality one to another - On the duty of hospitality, see the Romans 12:13 note; Hebrews 13:2 note.

Without grudging - Greek, “without murmurs;” that is, without complaining of the hardship of doing it; of the time, and expense, and trouble required in doing it. The idea of grudging, in the common sense of that word - that is, of doing it unwillingly, or regretting the expense, and considering it as ill-bestowed, or as not producing an equivalent of any kind - is not exactly the idea here. It is that we are to do it without murmuring or complaining. It greatly enhances the value of hospitality, that it be done on our part with entire cheerfulness. One of the duties involved in it is to make a guest happy; and this can be done in no other way than by showing him that he is welcome.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. Use hospitality — Be ever ready to divide your bread with the hungry, and to succour the stranger. Hebrews 13:2; Hebrews 13:2.

Without grudging. — ανευγαγγυσμων. Without grumblings. Do nothing merely because it is commanded, but do it from love to God and man; then it will be without grumbling.


 
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