46 Bible Verses about Immigrants

The stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.

Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

You shall neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

So says Jehovah, Do judgment and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the oppressors's hand. And do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

The stranger within you shall get up above you very high, and you shall come down very low.

For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.

And also you may buy of the sons of the tenants who are staying with you; and from their families that are with you, whom they fathered in your land. And they shall be your possession.

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corner of your field. When you reap the gleaning of your harvest, you shall not gather. You shall leave them to the poor and to the stranger. I am Jehovah your God.

Also you shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, since you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.

And if a stranger lives with you in your land, you shall not oppress him.

And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your sons and your sons' sons, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger in giving him food and clothing.

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

When did we see You a stranger, and took You in? Or naked, and clothed You?

For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who lives in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to ask of him concerning Me; I Jehovah will answer him Myself.

After these things the Word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am your shield and your exceeding great reward.

Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself, and not in another.

And when they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and His mother and flee into Egypt. And be there until I bring you word, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy Him.

Cry out again, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: My cities shall yet be spread abroad through good, and Jehovah shall again overflow with goodness, and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

Come, let us deal slyly with them, lest they multiply, and it will be when there comes a war, they join also to our enemies, and fight against us, and get out of the land.

Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

And Elijah the Tishbite, of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

And David commanded the strangers in the land of Israel to be gathered. And he set masons to cut squared stones to build the house of God.

For Jehovah your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, the mighty, and a terrible God, who does not respect persons nor take a bribe.

The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

So then as we have time, let us work good toward all, especially toward those of the household of faith.

And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I, and your mother, and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the earth before you?

Also the sons of the stranger, who join themselves to Jehovah to serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be His servants, everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and takes hold of My covenant;

And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Giblites cut out and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What is the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they saw that the ark of Jehovah had come into the camp.

So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.

But the chief of the executioners left a few of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

And the Avvim who lived in villages as far as Azzah, the Caphtorites, who came forth out of Caphtor destroyed them, and lived in their place.

And the days of Israel to die drew near. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt.

the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim. And he renewed the altar of Jehovah before the porch of Jehovah.

Until this day they do according to their former ways. They do not fear Jehovah, neither do they do according to their statutes, or according to their ordinances, or according to the Law and commandment which Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

And he said to them, Do you know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba. And the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And Mizraim fathered Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim,

But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.