27 Bible Verses about Foreigners

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So you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of His family;

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.

These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

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So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burying-ground for strangers.

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(Now all the Athenians and foreign visitors in Athens used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to the latest new thing out.)

And if you address as Father, Him who judges everyone impartially in accordance with what he does, you must live reverently all your fleeting stay on earth,

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In the law it is written, "By men of foreign languages and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."

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By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.

Topics on Foreigners

Attitudes Towards Foreigners

1 Thessalonians 4:12

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so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.

Avoiding Foreigners

Matthew 10:5

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Jesus sent these twelve out, after giving them the following charge: "Do not go to the heathen, or to any Samaritan town,

Exiled Foreigners

Foreigners In The Holy Places

Luke 21:24

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They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under the feet of the heathen, until the times of the heathen come to full measure.

Foreigners Included Among The People

Romans 15:10

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And again: "Rejoice, you heathen peoples, with His people!"

Foreigners Included In The Law

Romans 2:14

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Indeed, when heathen people who have no law instinctively do what the law demands, although they have no law, they are a law to themselves,

Foreigners Permitted At The Feasts

Foreigners Saved By Faith

Romans 1:5

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through whom we have received God's favor and a commission as an apostle in His name to urge upon all the heathen obedience inspired by faith,

Foreigners Subdued

Acts 26:17

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I will continue to rescue you from the Jewish people and from the heathen to whom I am going to send you,

Laws Restricting Foreigners

Loving Foreigners

Matthew 25:35

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For when I was hungry, you gave me something to eat, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger you welcomed me to your homes,

Numbers Of Foreigners Killed

Oppressing Foreigners

Matthew 25:43

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when I was a stranger you did not welcome me to your homes, when I needed clothes you did not put them on me, when I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me.'

Preaching Gospel To Foreigners

Acts 13:47

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For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"

Reckoned As Foreigners

Hebrews 11:9

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By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.

Relations With Foreigners

Luke 4:26

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and yet Elijah was not sent to a single one of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Suffering From Foreigners

Acts 21:11

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He came to see us and took Paul's belt and with it bound his own hands and feet, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says, 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and then will turn him over to the heathen.'"