11 Bible Verses about Relations With Foreigners

And from there David went to Mizpeh in the land of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and mother come and make their living-place with you till it is clear to me what God will do for me.

So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

But Elijah was not sent to one of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.

For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;