Hospitality..............

It's a gift, and it is a good gift. To make welcome. All through the old testament and the new we are shown examples of hospitality. I do not think it is optional.

I pray God continues to teach me how to use this gift to refresh the saints and those that he would send across our path.

Love in Christ, Ella

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

1Pe:4:10: As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Lexicon Results
Strong's G5382 - philoxenos
φιλόξενος
Transliteration
philoxenos
Pronunciation
fē-lo'-kse-nosPart of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From φίλος (G5384) and ξένος (G3581)
TDNT Reference
5:1,661
Vines
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Outline of Biblical Usage
1) hospitable, generous to guests

AV — given to hospitality 1, lover of hospitality 1, use hospitality 1
Thayer's Lexicon (Help)
Strong's G5382 - philoxenos
Number G5382 matches the Greek φιλόξενος (philoxenos), which occurs 3 times in 3 verses in the Greek concordance of the KJVPage 1 / 1 (1Ti 3:2 - 1Pe 4:9


1Ti 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Tts 1:8
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
1Pe 4:9
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.