13 Bible Verses about Avoiding Foreigners

But his master said to him, "We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, who [are] not from the {Israelites}; we will cross over up to Gibeah."

Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from [the] hand of foreigners,

Rescue me and deliver me from [the] hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand [is] a false right hand,

Those of the seed of Israel separated themselves from all of the foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

so as not to go among these remaining nations with you; {do not profess} the name of their gods, and do not swear by them, serve them, or {bow down to them}.

May they be yours alone, and not for strangers [who are] with you.

So I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established responsibilities for the priests and Levites, each in his own work,

Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them saying, "Do not go on the road to the Gentiles, and do not enter into a city of the Samaritans,

{to whom alone} the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.

And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

And if he refuses to listen to them, tell [it] to the church. But if he refuses to listen to the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

And he said to them, "You know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a foreigner. And to me God has shown [that] I should call no man common or unclean.

For what [is it] to me to judge those outside? Should you not judge those inside?