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 hospitable. This is the first form of charity — receiving Christians who came from other towns (comp. 3 John 1:5). See how such hospitality covers (to the surprise of the bestowers) a multitude of sins in Matthew 25:35.

Without grudging. — That is, without murmuring. How frequently Christian hospitality is marred by grumbling at the expense and the trouble which it costs!

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