21 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest

By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.

And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land:

Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth: