Acts 28:2

New American Bible - revised edition

The natives showed us extraordinary hospitality; they lit a fire and welcomed all of us because it had begun to rain and was cold.

Cross References

Ezra 10:9

All the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered together in Jerusalem within the three-day period: it was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the people, sitting in the open place before the house of God, were trembling both over the matter at hand and because it was raining.

Leviticus 19:18

Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the Lord, am your God.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”

John 18:18

Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire that they had made, because it was cold, and were warming themselves. Peter was also standing there keeping warm. The Inquiry Before Annas.

Acts 27:3

On the following day we put in at Sidon where Julius was kind enough to allow Paul to visit his friends who took care of him.

Acts 28:3

Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire when a viper, escaping from the heat, fastened on his hand.

Acts 28:4

When the natives saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must certainly be a murderer; though he escaped the sea, Justice has not let him remain alive.”

Romans 1:14

To Greeks and non-Greeks alike, to the wise and the ignorant, I am under obligation;

Romans 14:1

Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Romans 14:3

The one who eats must not despise the one who abstains, and the one who abstains must not pass judgment on the one who eats; for God has welcomed him.

Romans 2:27

Indeed, those who are physically uncircumcised but carry out the law will pass judgment on you, with your written law and circumcision, who break the law.

1 Corinthians 14:11

but if I do not know the meaning of a language, I shall be a foreigner to one who speaks it, and one who speaks it a foreigner to me.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.

Colossians 3:11

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.

Hebrews 13:2

Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels.