8 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise.

"What God said was this. "'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the land, and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.

If then I do not know the force of expression, I shall seem a barbarian to the one who uses it, and he will seem a barbarian to me.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia,

These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

And since you call upon him as Father, who impartially judges each one according to his deeds, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence.