97 Bible Verses about Foreigners

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Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

Leviticus 19:33

“When a foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Leviticus 24:22

You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am Yahweh your God.”

Isaiah 60:10

Foreigners will build up your walls,
and their kings will serve you.
Although I struck you in My wrath,
yet I will show mercy to you with My favor.

Psalm 18:44

Foreigners submit to me grudgingly;
as soon as they hear, they obey me.

Isaiah 56:6

And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord
minister to Him, love the name of Yahweh
and become His servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold firmly to My covenant—

Exodus 12:49

The same law will apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

1 Kings 8:41

Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of Your name—

Ezekiel 47:23

In whatever tribe the foreigner lives, you will assign his inheritance there.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Proverbs 5:10

strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Lamentations 5:2

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

Deuteronomy 17:15

you are to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses. Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,
and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

Ezekiel 47:22

You will allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners living among you, who have fathered children among you. You will treat them like native-born Israelites; along with you, they will be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

2 Samuel 22:46

Foreigners lose heart
and come trembling from their fortifications.

Jeremiah 5:19

When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them: Just as you abandoned Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Ezekiel 44:9

“This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter My sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years.

Ezekiel 7:21

I will hand these things over
to foreigners as plunder
and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
and they will profane them.

Matthew 27:7

So they conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn with His right hand
and His strong arm:
I will no longer give your grain
to your enemies for food,
and foreigners will not drink your new wine
you have labored for.

Leviticus 23:22

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God.”

2 Chronicles 6:32

Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of Your great name
and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm:
when he comes and prays toward this temple,

Ezekiel 28:7

I am about to bring strangers against you,
ruthless men from the nations.
They will draw their swords
against your magnificent wisdom
and will defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 14:7

For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from Me, setting up idols in his heart and putting a sinful stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I, Yahweh, will answer him Myself.

Exodus 12:48

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a temporary resident living within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Psalm 105:12

When they were few in number,
very few indeed,
and temporary residents in Canaan,

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is desolate,
your cities burned with fire;
foreigners devour your fields
before your very eyes—
a desolation demolished by foreigners.

2 Samuel 22:45

Foreigners submit to me grudgingly;
as soon as they hear, they obey me.

Leviticus 18:26

But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable things—not the native or the foreigner who lives among you.

Joshua 8:35

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before the entire assembly of Israel, including the women, the little children, and the foreigners who were with them.

1 Chronicles 22:2

So David gave orders to gather the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to cut finished stones for building God’s house.

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

Leviticus 17:8

“Say to them: Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

Nehemiah 9:2

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the guilt of their fathers.

Deuteronomy 15:3

You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

Jeremiah 51:2

I will send strangers to Babylon
who will scatter her and strip her land bare,
for they will come against her
from every side in the day of disaster.

Numbers 15:16

The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the foreigner who resides with you.”

Leviticus 25:45

You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you—those born in your land. These may become your property.

Jeremiah 30:8

“On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“I will break his yoke from your neck and tear off your chains so strangers will never again enslave him.

Deuteronomy 26:12

“When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

1 Corinthians 14:21

It is written in the law:

I will speak to these people
by people of other languages
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to Me,

says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:20

You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 31:12

Gather the people—men, women, children, and foreigners living within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and be careful to follow all the words of this law.

Isaiah 28:11

So He will speak to this people
with stammering speech
and in a foreign language.

Deuteronomy 29:22

“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.

Isaiah 25:5

like heat in a dry land,
You subdue the uproar of barbarians.
As the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,
so He silences the song of the violent.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners consume his strength,
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,

Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

Joel 3:17

Then you will know
that I am Yahweh your God,
who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain.
Jerusalem will be holy,
and foreigners will never overrun it again.

Zephaniah 1:8

On the day of the Lord’s sacrifice
I will punish the officials, the king’s sons,
and all who are dressed in foreign clothing.

1 Chronicles 16:19

When they were few in number,
very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

Ezekiel 44:8

You have not kept charge of My holy things but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;
it will never be rebuilt.

Ezekiel 28:10

You will die the death of the uncircumcised
at the hands of strangers.
For I have spoken.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 24:19

“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Psalm 144:7

Reach down from heaven;
rescue me from deep water, and set me free
from the grasp of foreigners

Topics on Foreigners

Avoiding Foreigners

Judges 19:12

But his master replied to him, “We will not stop at a foreign city where there are no Israelites. Let’s move on to Gibeah.”

Exiled Foreigners

Jeremiah 46:19

Get your bags ready for exile,
inhabitant of Daughter Egypt!
For Memphis will become a desolation,
uninhabited ruins.

Foreigners Permitted At The Feasts

Exodus 12:48

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

Foreigners Subdued

2 Chronicles 22:2

Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king and reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri.

Laws Restricting Foreigners

Exodus 12:43

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.

Loving Foreigners

Ruth 2:10

She bowed with her face to the ground and said to him, “Why are you so kind to notice me, although I am a foreigner?”

Numbers Of Foreigners Killed

Judges 14:19

The Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed 30 of their men. He stripped them and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. In a rage, Samson returned to his father’s house,

Reckoned As Foreigners

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Relations With Foreigners

1 Samuel 22:3

From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

Suffering From Foreigners

Ezekiel 11:9

“I will bring you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners; I will execute judgments against you.

What Foreigners Do

Matthew 5:47

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing out of the ordinary? Don’t even the Gentiles do the same?

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