32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,
    for my door was always open to the traveler(A)

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32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

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32 (A)(But no sojourner had to lodge in the street,
For I have opened my doors to the [a]traveler);

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:32 So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT road

13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need.(A) Practice hospitality.(B)

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13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

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13 (A)distributing to the needs of the saints, (B)given[a] to hospitality.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 12:13 Lit. pursuing

Concluding Exhortations

13 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.(A) Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,(B) for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.(C)

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13 Let brotherly love continue.

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

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Concluding Moral Directions

13 Let (A)brotherly love continue. (B)Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing (C)some have unwittingly entertained angels.

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Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,[a](A) even though they are strangers to you.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:5 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family.

Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

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Gaius Commended for Generosity

Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren [a]and for strangers,

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Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:5 NU and especially for