52 Bible Verses about Aliens

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

"When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

"You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you

remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.

"And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God."

You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."

"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

"You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

"And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant--

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you."

"When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

"You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.

Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,

lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.

Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"

your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.

'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.'

And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.

You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.

When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it,

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."

The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;

For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.

"You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

"When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,

David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.

Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,

If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.