Acts 28:2
Good News Translation
The natives there were very friendly to us. It had started to rain and was cold, so they built a fire and made us all welcome.

New Revised Standard Version
The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us around it.

Contemporary English Version
The local people were very friendly, and they welcomed us by building a fire, because it was rainy and cold.

New American Bible
The natives showed us extraordinary hospitality; they lit a fire and welcomed all of us because it had begun to rain and was cold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain and of the cold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain and of the cold.

barbarous.

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

Romans 1:14 To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor.

1 Corinthians 14:11 If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.

Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

shewed.

Acts 27:3 And the day following, we came to Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul courteously, permitted him to go to his friends and to take care of himself.

Leviticus 19:18,34 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord. . . .

Proverbs 24:11,12 Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver. . . .

Matthew 10:42 And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he shall not lose his reward.

Luke 10:30-37 And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who also stripped him and having wounded him went away, leaving him half dead. . . .

Romans 2:14,15,27 For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves. . . .

Hebrews 13:2 And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

because.

Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.

John 18:18 Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also, standing and warming himself.

2 Corinthians 11:27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

Context
Ashore on Malta
1And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy. 2For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain and of the cold. 3And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks and had laid them on the fire, a viper, coming out of the heat, fastened on his hand.…
Cross References
Acts 28:3
And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks and had laid them on the fire, a viper, coming out of the heat, fastened on his hand.

Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

Romans 1:14
To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor.

Romans 14:1
Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

Romans 14:3
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

1 Corinthians 14:11
If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.

Colossians 3:11
Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

Acts 28:1
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