Romans 12:13
New International Version
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

New Living Translation
When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.

English Standard Version
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Berean Standard Bible
Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Berean Literal Bible
contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

King James Bible
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

New King James Version
distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.

New American Standard Bible
contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.

NASB 1995
contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.

NASB 1977
contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.

Legacy Standard Bible
contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

Amplified Bible
contributing to the needs of God’s people, pursuing [the practice of] hospitality.

Christian Standard Bible
Share with the saints in their needs; pursue hospitality.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Share with the saints in their needs; pursue hospitality.

American Standard Version
communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Be partakers with the needs of the holy; befriend strangers.

Contemporary English Version
Take care of God's needy people and welcome strangers into your home.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.

English Revised Version
communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Share what you have with God's people who are in need. Be hospitable.

Good News Translation
Share your belongings with your needy fellow Christians, and open your homes to strangers.

International Standard Version
Supply the needs of the saints. Extend hospitality to strangers.

Literal Standard Version
to the necessities of the holy ones communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

Majority Standard Bible
Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.

New American Bible
Contribute to the needs of the holy ones, exercise hospitality.

NET Bible
Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

New Revised Standard Version
Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.

New Heart English Bible
contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Webster's Bible Translation
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Weymouth New Testament
Relieve the necessities of God's people; always practise hospitality.

World English Bible
contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.

Young's Literal Translation
to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

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Context
Love, Zeal, Hope, Hospitality
12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer. 13Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality. 14Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 17:29
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness."

2 Kings 4:10
Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there."

Proverbs 31:20
She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,

Romans 15:25
Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.

1 Corinthians 16:15
You know that Stephanas and his household were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. Now I urge you, brothers,

2 Corinthians 9:1
Now about the service to the saints, there is no need for me to write to you.


Treasury of Scripture

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Distributing.

Romans 12:8
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 15:25-28
But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints…

Psalm 41:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

given.

Genesis 18:2-8
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, …

Genesis 19:1-3
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; …

1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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Romans 12
1. God's mercies must move us to offer ourselves.
3. No man must think too well of himself;
6. but everyone attend to the calling wherein he is placed.
9. Love, and many other duties are required of us.
19. Revenge is especially forbidden.














(13) Distributing to the necessity of saints.--By "saints" is here meant simply "Christians." So, in Ephesians 1:1, we find the salutation addressed to the "saints which are at Ephesus." (Comp. Acts 9:13; Acts 26:10.) The reference is to the well-known poverty of the early Christian communities.

Necessity.--Some of the Graeco-Latin manuscripts and fathers here read, memories, or commemorations, by a slight change of letters, "taking part in the commemorations of the saints," as if the allusion was to the later ecclesiastical usage of holding festivals in honour of martyrs. The best manuscripts are wonderfully free from corruptions of this kind, and even inferior manuscripts admit them to a much smaller extent than might have been expected. Other examples would be the insertion of the phrase "and fasting" in Mark 9:29, and the addition of the doxology to the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6:13. . . .

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Greek
Share with
κοινωνοῦντες (koinōnountes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2841: From koinonos; to share with others.

the
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

saints
ἁγίων (hagiōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 40: Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred.

who [are]
ταῖς (tais)
Article - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

in need.
χρείαις (chreiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5532: From the base of chraomai or chre; employment, i.e. An affair; also occasion, demand, requirement or destitution.

Practice
διώκοντες (diōkontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1377: To pursue, hence: I persecute. A prolonged form of a primary verb dio; to pursue; by implication, to persecute.

hospitality.
φιλοξενίαν (philoxenian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5381: Love to strangers, hospitality. From philoxenos; hospitableness.


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