8 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners

By faith he lived in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise;

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

At this remark Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the one who is speaking, and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen exiles in the Dispersion, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.

If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your exile on earth.