27 Bible Verses about Foreigners

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So then ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them at a great distance, though believing and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

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So taking counsel, they bought with them a potter's field, as a burial-place for strangers.

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Now all the Athenians and the strangers who come to sojourn there, take pleasure in spending their time in nothing else but in talking, or hearing of some novelty.

And if ye invoke him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourning with [jealous] fear:

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In the law it is written, "That with other tongues, and with other lips, will I speak to this people: and even thus will they not attend to me, saith the Lord."

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By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

Topics on Foreigners

Attitudes Towards Foreigners

1 Thessalonians 4:12

Verse Concepts

that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

Avoiding Foreigners

Matthew 10:5

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These twelve did Jesus send forth, commanding them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter not:

Exiled Foreigners

Foreigners In The Holy Places

Luke 21:24

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And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden under foot of the Gentiles, until the times appointed for the Gentiles shall come to their period.

Foreigners Included Among The People

Romans 15:10

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And again he saith, "Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people."

Foreigners Included In The Law

Romans 2:14

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(for when the Gentiles, who have not the law naturally, do the things of the law, these, though not having the law, are a law unto themselves:

Foreigners Permitted At The Feasts

Foreigners Saved By Faith

Romans 1:5

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through whom we have received grace and apostolic mission among all nations for his name, to bring them to the obedience of faith:

Foreigners Subdued

Acts 26:17

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delivering thee both from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send thee,

Laws Restricting Foreigners

Loving Foreigners

Matthew 25:35

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for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye received me hospitably:

Numbers Of Foreigners Killed

Oppressing Foreigners

Matthew 25:43

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I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye did not clothe me: sick, and in prison, and ye took no care of me.

Preaching Gospel To Foreigners

Acts 13:47

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For so hath the Lord enjoined us, "I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou mightest be for salvation unto the extremity of the earth."

Reckoned As Foreigners

Hebrews 11:9

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By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

Relations With Foreigners

Luke 4:26

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And unto none of them was Elias sent, but unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a widow woman.

Suffering From Foreigners

Acts 21:11

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And coming to us, he took Paul's girdle, and binding both his own hands and feet together, said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, The man, whose girdle this is, shall the Jews bind in like manner at Jerusalem, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.