97 Bible Verses about Foreigners

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.

"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--

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

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

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake

In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord GOD.

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

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

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

you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

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

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

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.

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.

Foreigners lost heart and came tremblingout of their fortresses.

And when your people say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'"

"Thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

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.

And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.

So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.

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;

"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."

"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,

therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.

For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the LORD will answer him myself.

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.

Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.

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

"You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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

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.

Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

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

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.

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.

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

"And you shall say to them, Any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice

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

Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.

and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.

One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."

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.

"And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

"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,

In the Law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."

You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

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,

"'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people,

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

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick--

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.

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

if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,

Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.

"So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

And on the day of the LORD's sacrifice-- "I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.

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

By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD."

"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.

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