14 Bible Verses about Foreigners Included Among The People
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The Lord will certainly have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family of Jacob.
Foreigners will rebuild your walls; their kings will serve you. Even though I struck you down in my anger, I will restore my favor and have compassion on you.
"Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.
You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.
foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.
As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants -- all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant --
Cry out, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge his servants' blood; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.
You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,
You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God -- the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,
Gather the people -- men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages -- so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.
In whatever tribe the foreigner resides, there you will give him his inheritance," declares the sovereign Lord.
Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.
