13 Bible Verses about Avoiding Foreigners
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But his master said unto him, "We will not turn in to a strange city that are not of the children of Israel: we will go forth to Gibeah."
Send down thine hand from above; deliver me, and take me out of the greatwaters, from the hand of strange children,
Save me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their righthand is a righthand of falsity -
and separated the seed of Israel from all the strange children and stood and acknowledged their sins, and the wickedness of their fathers,
and that ye go not unto these nations that remain with you: and that ye neither make mention or swear by the names of their gods, and that ye neither serve them nor bow yourselves unto them.
Thus cleansed I them from all such as were outlandish, and appointed the courses of the priests and Levites, every one to his office,
These twelve did Jesus send, and commanded them, saying, "Go not into the ways that lead to the Gentiles, and in to the cities of the Samaritans enter ye not:
A stranger they will not follow, but will fly from him. For they know not the voice of strangers."
If he hear not them, tell it unto the congregation: if he hear not the congregation, take him as a heathen man, and as a publican.
And he said unto them, "Ye do know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to company or come unto an alien: But God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean:
For what have I to do to judge them which are without? Do ye not judge them that are within?