One way that Christians can show their love is to invite people into their homes. It may involve hard work. But they should be happy to help other people and should not complain. They should do this even if the Christian is a stranger. He may have travelled from a different place. Remember that God is the Father of all Christians. All Christians belong to the same family.
Verse 9. _USE HOSPITALITY_] Be ever ready to divide your bread with the _hungry_, and to succour the _stranger_. Hebrews 13:2, Hebrews 13:2. _WITHOUT GRUDGING._] ανευγαγγυσμων. _Without grumblings_....
USE HOSPITALITY ONE TO ANOTHER - On the duty of hospitality, see the Romans 12:13 note; Hebrews 13:2 note. WITHOUT GRUDGING - Greek, “without murmurs;” that is, without complaining of the hardship of...
IV. THE COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND SUFFERING CHAPTER 3:10-4:19 _ 1. The comfort in suffering (1 Peter 3:10)_ 2. Few saved as illustrated by Noah's preaching (1 Peter 3:18) 3. The new life i...
The conception that the _consummation of_ all things is at hand fills the thought of the section with urgency. All work is to be done in that spirit of earnest, prayerful readiness that all life may p...
THE OBLIGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN (1 Peter 4:1-5)...
Be hospitable to one another and never grudge it. As each has received a gift from God, so let all use such gifts in the service of one another, like good stewards of the grace of God. Peter's mind i...
USE HOSPITALITY. Be hospitable. See 1 Timothy 3:2 and compare Romans 12:13. ONE, &C. = to one another. GRUDGING. murmuring. See Acts 6:1....
_Use hospitality one to another without grudging_ Literally, BE HOSPITABLE. The stress laid on this virtue in the New Testament, as in 1 Timothy 3:2; Romans 12:13; Hebrews 13:2, brings before us some...
ΦΙΛΌΞΕΝΟΙ. The duty of hospitality to strangers, commended by our Lord, Matthew 25:35, is also enjoined in Romans 12:13 and Hebrews 13:2. In 1 Timoth
Having urged the necessity of terminating the regime of sin, St Peter next gives a summary of what life according to God in the Spirit should be. It is a life of sober-mindedness, of watchful prayer,...
ΦΙΛΌΞΕΝΟΣ (G5382) оказывающий гостеприимство, принимающий странников. В то время не было нормальных гостиниц для обычных людей, поэтому возникала необходимость принимать дома друзей и других достаточн...
USE HOSPITALITY, &C.— We have had frequent occasion to remark the especial necessity and importance of hospitality, for the want of inns in the Eastern world. Dr. Robertson, speaking of the little int...
1 PETER 4:8-9 ABOVE ALL THINGS BEING FERVENT IN YOUR LOVE AMONG YOURSELVES; FOR LOVE COVERETH A MULTITUDE OF SINS: USING HOSPITALITY ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT MURMURING: _Expanded Translation_ in prefe...
Use hospitality one to another without grudging. (Romans 12:13; Hebrews 13:2.) Not the spurious hospitality which passes current in the world; but entertaining those needing it; especially those ex...
VERSE 9. USE HOSPITALITY ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT GRUDGING. Hospitality is good. Use it towards one another, and while so using it do not murmur. Do not use it unhesitatingly. Regard not the expense or...
19 Who are these imprisoned spirits ? Are they not the same that Peter mentions in his second epistle (1Pe_2:4) who were thrust down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, and the messengers of Jude's epi...
THE SECURITY OF THE FAITHFUL IN THE APPROACHING JUDGMENT _C_ (ii). 1 Peter 4:1. 'This is your faith: live then in accordance with it. Arm yourselves against your troubles by resolving to be like Chris...
USE HOSPITALITY. — It is a great pity that again (as in 1 Peter 3:8, and elsewhere) the participial clauses are broken up in our version into separate injunctions. Here it is, properly, _being hospita...
(7-11) DUTY OF BENEVOLENCE WITHIN THE CHURCH IN VIEW OF THE ADVENT. — The end of the world is not far off; let it find you not only sober, but (above all else) exerting an intense charity within the C...
CHAPTER 13 CHRISTIAN SERVICE FOR GOD'S GLORY 1 Peter 4:7 "BUT the end of all things is at hand." Well-nigh two thousand years have passed away since the Apostle wrote these words. What are we to thi...
Hospitality is the practical proof of this _love_; its practice was necessary to the cohesion of the scattered brotherhood as to the welfare of those whose duties called them to travel. The inns were...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST 1 Peter 4:1 The Apostle urges the disciples to make a clean break with sin. As our Lord's grave lay between Him and His earlier life, so there should be a clean break between o...
The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reached a triumph, and to call them to arm themselves wi...
SERVING TO GLORIFY GOD From considering some who had heard the gospel and already died, Peter went immediately into the nearness of the end of all things. Peter may well have been specifically thinkin...
(7) Use hospitality one to another without grudging. (7) Of all the duties of charity, he commends one, namely that which was at that time most necessary, that is, hospitality, which he would have be...
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; (2) That he no longer should live t...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM_ ‘The end of all things is at hand … watch unto prayer.… Have fervent charity.… Use hospitality.… Speak as the oracles of God … that God in all things may be glorified.’ 1...
9_Use hospitality, _or, _Be hospitable_. After having generally exhorted them to love one another, he specially mentions one of the duties of love. At that time hospitality was commonly used, and it w...
From the beginning of this Chapter to the end of Verse, the apostle continues to speak of the general principles of God's government, exhorting, the Christian to act on the principles of Christ Him el...
USE HOSPITALITY,.... Or, "be lovers of strangers", as the phrase may be rendered, and as it is in the Syriac version; that is, such as are of a distant country, or come from afar, and are unknown by f...
Use hospitality one to another without grudging. Ver. 9. _Without grudgings_] Without shucking and hucking. 2 Corinthians 8:12; _See Trapp on "_ 2Co 8:12 _"_...
_Above all things_ See that you remember the distinguishing badge of your religion and _have_, maintain, _fervent charity_, love, _among yourselves_ One toward another: _for love shall cover a multitu...
Christian virtues and works:...
USE HOSPITALITY ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT GRUDGING....
Christ's suffering in the flesh is set before us then as an example; not His sufferings for us in atonement, which were His alone, but His sufferings in a contrary world, in precious, lowly grace. We...
_ 1 Peter 4:9 ‘Be hospitable to one another without complaint.'_ ‘BE HOSPITABLE' -(Romans 12:13; Hebrews 13:2; 1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 1;8;...
7-11 The destruction of the Jewish church and nation, foretold by our Saviour, was very near. And the speedy approach of death and judgment concerns all, to which these words naturally lead our minds...
USE HOSPITALITY; Christian hospitality in entertaining strangers, those especially that are brought to need your kindness by suffering for the gospel. WITHOUT GRUDGING; or murmuring, either at the exp...
1 Peter 4:9 hospitable G5382 another G1519 G240 without G427 grumbling G1112 hospitality - Romans 12:13,...
‘Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins, using hospitality one to another without murmuring,' Instead of indulging in ‘lasciviousness' (‘lust...
IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING JUDGMENT AND RESURRECTION THEY ARE TO LIVE WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY (1 PETER 4:7). In view of the urgency of the times therefore they are to live out their Christian lives ac...
APPLICATION OF THE PREVIOUS THEME, AND REMINDER OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (1 PETER 4:1). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now applies the i...
The thought of Christ's readiness to judge both quick and dead leads naturally to that of the close of the world. Peter passes thus to a new series of counsels bearing on what befits men who see the J...
1 Peter 4:9. HOSPITABLE ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT MURMURING. The duty of hospitality occupies a very notable place in the New Testament teaching, in respect both of private Christians and of those in off...
USING HOSPITALITY (φιλοξενο). "Friendly to strangers," old word (from φιλοσ, ξενος), in N.T. only here and 1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 1:8. No verb here in the Greek.WITHOUT MURMURING (ανευ γογγυσμου). L...
1 Peter 4:1. _Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind:_ Accepting this great truth, that it is well that the flesh should die that the s...
1 Peter 4:1. _Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin:_ Brethren, we have a...
CONTENTS: Exhortations to mortification of sin and living unto God. Suffering with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Christ having suffered so much for us, should cause us to fortify ourse...
1 Peter 4:3. _The will of the gentiles._ Augustine in his city of God, should be read to see the excess and abominable idolatries of the gentiles. See the notes on Ephesians 5:12; Romans 1....
OPEN YOUR HOMES. Persecution often made it necessary to "run for your life!" Hospitality was therefore especially important! See notes on Romans 12:13; 1 Timothy 3:2....
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 4:8 LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS (Proverbs 10:12). Where love is present, offenses are forgiven....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 4:7. END OF ALL THINGS.—Jews naturally thought of the end of organised Judaism as the “end of all things,” The end of one great _æon_, or dispensation was nigh...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 4:1 FORASMUCH THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH. St. Peter returns, after the digression of 1 Peter 3:19, to the great subject of Christ's example. The words "for...
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us (1 Peter 4:1) That is, has gone to the cross. in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered (1 Peter 4:1) Or come...
1 Timothy 3:2; 2 Corinthians 9:7; Hebrews 13:16; Hebrews 13:2; James 5
Using hospitality. Compare Romans 13:13....
One to another — Ye that are of different towns or countries. Without murmuring — With all cheerfulness. Proverbs 10:12....
As. principal act and eminent exercise of charity, the apostle advises to USE HOSPITALITY to their poor brethern, WITHOUT GRUDGING or murmuring at the charge: hospitality is. necessary,. commendable,...