13 Bible Verses about Avoiding Foreigners

And his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah."

Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners,

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

And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,

Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;

These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).

A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?