Devine Scripture

Hebrews 13:2

Hebrews chapter 13 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Context

v.1Let love of the brethren continue.

v.2This passage

v.3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Peter 4:9

    using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

  • Job 31:32

    (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

  • Genesis 18:1

    And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

  • Titus 1:8

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

  • Matthew 25:40

    And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.

  • Matthew 25:43

    I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.