Hebrews Chapter 13 verse 2 Holy Bible
Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.
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Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have unawares entertained angels.
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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
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of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;
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Hebrews 13 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Be not forgetful to entertain strangers (or, of hospitality): for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Allusions to this duty are frequent in the Epistles; its exercise would be of especial importance, in those days of persecution, towards scattered and destitute brethren as well as towards missionaries, though it by no means appears that it was meant to be confined to "them that are of the household of faith." Possibly some of the wavering Hebrew Christians might be becoming less ready to open their doors to the persecuted from fear of "reproach" in Jewish circles. The allusion of the latter part of the verse is evidently to Abraham and Lot (Genesis 18. and 19.). At any time the visits even of our fellow-men may be to us as visits of angels, as being messengers of God's purposes for good when least expected. And especially to be noted are our Lord's own words, "He that receiveth you receiveth me," etc., and "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matthew 25:40).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) To entertain strangers.--Hospitality to Christian brethren at a distance from their homes is especially intended (1Peter 4:9): this was one manifestation of the "love of the brethren" (Hebrews 13:1). The prominence assigned to this duty in the exhortations of the Epistles of the New Testament was faithfully reflected in the practice of the early Church.Thereby some have entertained angels unawares.--See Genesis 18, 19. The Greek word for "angels"--messengers--of itself would serve to remind these Christians that, though the strangers whom they welcomed were but men, they might be special messengers of God. Clement of Rome, in his Epistle to the Corinthians (A.D. 95), appeals to the same examples (and also to Rahab): "For his faith and hospitality a son was given to Abraham in his old age. For his hospitality and godliness Lot was saved from Sodom."
