Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Using hospitality (filocenoi). "Friendly to strangers," old word (from filos, cenov), in N.T. only here and I Timothy 3:2; Titus 1:8. No verb here in the Greek.
Without murmuring (aneu goggusmou). Like xwriv goggusmwn in Philippians 2:14. Complaint spoils hospitality. Jesus enjoined the entertainment of strangers (Matthew 25:35). Inns were rare and very poor. Hospitality made mission work possible (III John 1:5).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 4:9:
Acts 6:1
1 Timothy 3:2
3 John 1:5
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