21 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your descendants shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

And God spoke in this way, That his descendants should live in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and ill-treat them for four hundred years.

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was an exile in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

And her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:

But the stranger that dwells with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has quite devoured also our money.

They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a foreigner, and he that speaks shall be a foreigner unto me.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

O the hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry for a night?

The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

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

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear: