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1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
Acts 2:5
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem.
Ephesians 2:12
that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Scattered

Leviticus 26:33
I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
Deuteronomy 4:27
Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:64
The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 32:26
"I said, 'I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.
Esther 3:8
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a particular people that is dispersed and spread among the inhabitants throughout all the provinces of your kingdom whose laws differ from those of all other peoples. Furthermore, they do not observe the king's laws. It is not appropriate for the king to provide a haven for them.
Psalm 44:11
You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.
Ezekiel 6:8
"'But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.
John 7:35
Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, "Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?
John 11:52
and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)
Acts 8:4
Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.
James 1:1
From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!

Pontus

Acts 2:5
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem.
Acts 18:2
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,

Galatia

Acts 16:6
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.
Acts 18:23
After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
Galatians 1:2
and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

Cappadocia

Acts 2:9
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia,

Asia

Acts 6:9
But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.
Acts 16:6
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.
Acts 19:10
This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.
Acts 20:16
For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.
1 Corinthians 16:19
The churches in the province of Asia send greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, with the church that meets in their house.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.
2 Timothy 1:15
You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
Revelation 1:11
saying: "Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches -- to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

Bithynia

Acts 16:7
When they came to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to do this,

General references

Zephaniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, those who pray to me will bring me tribute.

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