97 Bible Verses about Foreigners

Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God;

As the native among you shall be to you the stranger sojourning with you; thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I Jehovah your God.

The stranger which is in the midst of thee shall go up above thee, going up, going up; and thou shalt go down beneath, beneath.

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not oppress him.

And love ye the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt

Thou shalt not treat evil the stranger, and thou shalt not press him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.

One judgment to you; as the stranger so the native shall it be: for I Jehovah your God.

Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt

And the sons Of the stranger built thy walls, and their kings shall serve thee: for in my wrath I struck thee, and in mine acceptance I compassionated thee.

At the hearing of the ear they shall hear to me: sons of the stranger shall feign to me.

And the sons of the stranger joining themselves to Jehovah to serve him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be to him for servants, every one watching the Sabbath from defiling it, and taking hold upon my covenant;

He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment

One law shall be to the native and to the stranger sojourning in the midst of you.

Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;

And also for the strangers which are not of thy people Israel, he shall come from a land afar off for sake of thy name;

And it was in the tribe which the stranger sojourned with it there shall ye give his inheritance, says the Lord Jehovah.

Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers;

Our inheritance was turned to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Setting, thou shalt set over thee a king whom Jehovah thy God shall choose in him: from the midst of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a king: thou shalt not be able to set over thee a foreigner who is not of thy brethren.

Jehovah watched the strangers he will restore the orphan and the widow, and he will overturn the way of the unjust

And strangers stood and fed your sheep, and the sons of the stranger, your husbandmen and your vinedressers.

For Jehovah will pity Jacob, and he yet chose in Israel, and he gave them rest upon their land: and the stranger was joined to them, and they joined themseves to the house of Jacob.

And ye shall cause it to fall in inheritance to you, and to the strangers sojourning in the midst of you, who begat sons in the midst of you: and they were to you as the nation among the sons of Israel with you they shall fall in the inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

The sons of the stranger shall fail, and be girded from their enclosings.

And it was when ye shalt say, For what did Jehovah our God all these things to us? and thou saidst to them, As ye forsook me, and ye will serve a strange god in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land not to you.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Every son of the stranger, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall not come in to my holy place, to every son of the stranger which is the midst of the sons of Israel.

And he will say to Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in the land not to them; and they shall serve them and they shall humble them four hundred years.

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

And I gave it into the hands of strangers for plunder, and to the unjust of the earth for a spoil; and they profaned it

And having taken counsel, they purchased with them the potter's field, for the interment to strangers.

Jehovah sware by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, If I shall give more thy grain for food to thine enemies, and if the sons of the stranger shall drink thy new wine which thou didst labor for it:

And in your reaping the harvest of your land, thou shalt not finish the extremity of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt not glean: to the poor and to the stranger thou shalt leave them: I Jehovah your God.

And also to the stranger which he is not from thy people Israel, and coming from a land far off for sake of thy great name, and thy strong hand, and thine arm stretched out; and they came and prayed to this house;

For this, behold me bringing strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they emptied out their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they profaned thy splendor.

For a man, a man of the house of Israel, and of the stranger who shall sojourn in Israel, and he shall separate himself from after me, and shall bring up his blocks into his heart, and shall set the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and coming to the prophet to seek out to him for me; I Jehovah will answer to him for me:

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and do the passing over to Jehovah, all the males to him being circumcised, and then he shall draw near to do it; and he was as a native of the land: and every one uncircumcised shall not eat of it.

Sons of the stranger shall fall away, and they shall tremble from their enclosings.

Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow.

Ye shall not eat any carcass: to the stranger that is in thy gates ye shall give it, and he shall eat it; or sell it to a foreigner: for thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.

In their being men of number, as few and strangers in it.

Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.

The sons of the stranger will lie to me: For the hearing of the ear they will hear to me.

And ye watched these my laws, and my judgments, and ye shall not do from all of these abominations, the native and the stranger sojourning in your midst:

There was not a word from all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the gathering of Israel, and the women and the little ones and the stranger going in the midst of them.

And David will say to assemble the strangers which are in the land of Israel; and he will set up hewers of stone to hew out hewn stones to build the house of God

(And all the Athenians and strangers being present, passed time in nothing else but to say or hear some thing new.)

And thou shalt say to them, A man, a man from the house of Israel, and from the stranger who shall sojourn in the midst of you, who shall bring up a burnt-offering or a sacrifice,

And the seed of Israel will be separated from all the sons of the stranger, and they will stand and confess over their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Foreigners thou shalt exact of, and what shall be to thee with thy brother thine hand shall remit:

And I sent forth to Babel those scattering, and they scattered her, and they shall empty her land: for they were against her round about in the day of evil.

One law and one judgment shall be to you, and to the stranger sojourning with you.

And from the sons of the sojourner sojourning with you, from them shall ye buy, and from their families which are with you, which were born in your land: and they were to you for a possession.

And it was in that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and I will tear away thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve upon him.

And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:

When thou shalt finish to tithe all the tenth part of thy produce, in the third year the year of the tenth part, and thou gavest it to the Levite and to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow, and they ate in thy gates and were satisfied.

It has been written in the law, That in other tongues and in other lips will I speak to this people; and not so will they hear me, says the Lord.

To a foreigner thou shalt lend on interest; and to thy brother thou shalt not lend on interest: so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the stretching forth of thy hand upon the land which thou goest there to possess it

Gather the people, the men and the women and the little ones and thy stranger which is in thy gates, so that they shall hear, and so that they shall learn and fear Jehovah your God, and watch to do all the words of this law:

Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.

For with the stammerings of the lip and with another tongue he will speak to this people.

Snatch me away and deliver me from the hand of the sons of the stranger, whom their mouth spake vanity, and their right hand a right hand of falsehood:

The widow and the stranger they will slay, and they will kill the orphan.

And said, Another generation of your sons who shall rise up from after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a land afar off, and they saw the blows of that land, and the sicknesses which Jehovah made sick in it;

As the heat in Zion the noise of strangers thou shalt bring down; the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the song of the terrible shall be humbled.

Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not

Ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and innocent blood ye shall not pour out in this place, and after other gods ye shall not go, for evil to you;

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, shall cut him off and cast him down: upon the mountains and in all the galleys his branches fell, and his boughs shall be broken by all the torrents of the land; and all the people of the land shall go down from his shadow, and will cast him down.

And ye knew that I am Jehovah your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem was holy, and strangers shall no more pass through her.

And it was in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, and I reviewed upon the chiefs and upon the sons of the king, and upon all having put on strange clothing.

In your being men of number, as few, and strangers in it.

By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:

And ye watched not the watches of my holy place: and ye set for watching of my watches in my holy place for yourselves.

For thou didst set from a city to a heap, a fortified city to ruins: a palace of strangers from a city; it shall not be built forever.

Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I spake, says the Lord Jehovah.

When thou shalt reap thy harvest in thy field and didst forget a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not turn back to take it: to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow shall it be; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the doing of thy hands.

Send thy hands from height; snatch me away, and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of the stranger;