Extend ungrudging hospitality towards one another.
Relieve the necessities of God's people; always practise hospitality.
Gaius, my host, who is also the host of the whole Church, greets you. So do Erastus, the treasurer of the city, and Quartus our brother.
Let each contribute what he has decided upon in his own mind, and not do it reluctantly or under compulsion. »It is a cheerful giver that God loves.«
Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious spirit,
A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;
but hospitable to strangers, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, upright, saintly, self-controlled;
Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but might be a voluntary one.
And do not forget to be kind and liberal; for with sacrifices of that sort God is greatly pleased.
Do not neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.
Do not cry out in condemnation of one another, brethren, lest you come under judgement. I tell you that the Judge is standing at the door.
