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1 Peter 4:9

1 Peter 4:9
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Use hospitality one to another - On the duty of hospitality, see the Rom 12:13 note; Heb 13:2 note. Without grudging - Greek, “without murmurs;” that is, without complaining of the hardship of doing…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Use hospitality - Be ever ready to divide your bread with the hungry, and to succor the stranger. See on Heb 13:2 (note).

Without grudging - Ανευ γογγυσμων· Without grumblings. Do nothing merely…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Peter 4:7-11

We have here an awful position or doctrine, and an inference drawn from it. The position is that the end of all things is at hand. The miserable destruction of the Jewish church and nation foretold by…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Use hospitality one to another without grudging Literally, Be hospitable. The stress laid on this virtue in the New Testament, as in 1Ti 3:2; Rom 12:13; Heb 13:2, brings before us some of the more…