27 Bible Verses about Foreigners
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So you are no longer foreigners or strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of his family.
Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.
All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.
So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burial ground for strangers.
For all Athenians and all visitors there from abroad used to spend all their time telling or listening to something new.
And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here,
In the Law it says, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this nation, and not even then will they listen to me, says the Lord."
Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.
Topics on Foreigners
Attitudes Towards Foreigners
1 Thessalonians 4:12so that you may have the respect of the outsiders, and not be dependent upon anybody.
Avoiding Foreigners
Matthew 10:5Jesus sent these twelve out, after giving them these directions: "Do not go among the heathen, or to any Samaritan town,
Foreigners In The Holy Places
Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.
Foreigners Included Among The People
Romans 15:10And again, "Rejoice, you heathen, with his people!"
Foreigners Included In The Law
Romans 2:14When heathen who have no Law instinctively obey what the Law demands, even though they have no law they are a law to themselves,
Foreigners Saved By Faith
Romans 1:5through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,
Foreigners Subdued
Acts 26:17I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you
Loving Foreigners
Matthew 25:35For when I was hungry, you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger, you invited me to your homes,
Oppressing Foreigners
Matthew 25:43when I was a stranger, you did not invite me home, when I had no clothes, you did not supply me, when I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me.'
Preaching Gospel To Foreigners
Acts 13:47For these are the orders the Lord has given us: " 'I have made you a light for the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth!' "
Reckoned As Foreigners
Hebrews 11:9Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.
Relations With Foreigners
Luke 4:26and Elijah was not sent to one of them, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
Suffering From Foreigners
Acts 21:11He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "
What Foreigners Are Like
Matthew 6:32For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this.
What Foreigners Do
Matthew 5:47And if you are polite to your brothers and no one else, what is there remarkable in that? Do not the very heathen do that?
Related Topics
- Aliens
- Aliens, Believers Duty
- Avoiding Foreigners
- Being A Pilgrim
- Bereaved, Care For
- Citizens
- Foreigners In The Holy Places
- Foreigners Included Among The People
- Foreigners Included In The Law
- Gentiles, In Ot
- Hindering God's Work
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