97 Bible Verses about Foreigners

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens. You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and of the household of God.

Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.

The alien who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

Never mistreat a foreigner living in your land.

Love those who are aliens. For you were also aliens in the land of Egypt.

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

This law applies to all of you. It applies to Israelites and to foreigners living among you. I am Jehovah your God.'

Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.

Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. I struck you because of my anger, but in my favor I have compassion on you.

As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. Foreigners will cringe in front of me.

Foreigners have become allied with Jehovah, to serve Jehovah, to love the name of Jehovah, and to worship him. They keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and hold fast to my covenant.

He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you.

Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.

When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple,

Foreign residents will receive their share of the inheritance with the people of the tribe among whom they are living, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work.

Our heritage is turned over to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.

you shall surely set a king over you whom Jehovah your God chooses. It will be one from among your countrymen. You may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.

Jehovah protects the strangers. He supports the fatherless and the widow, but he overthrows the way of the wicked.

Strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks. Foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel. He will resettle them in their own country. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.

Divide it by drawing lots. This land will be for you. It will also be for the foreign residents who live among you and have given birth to children while they lived with you. Think of them as Israelites. They will draw lots with you for their inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Foreigners lose heart and are fearful in their fortresses.

They will ask: 'Why has Jehovah our God done all this to us?' Answer them: You have abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land. So you will serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'

The Lord Jehovah says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.'

Jehovah said to Abram: Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers (aliens) in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it.

They decided to use the silver to buy the potter's field. This would be a place to bury strangers.

Jehovah has sworn with his right hand and with his mighty arm (of power): I will never again let your enemies eat your grain, nor will foreigners drink the new wine that you produced.

When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.'

People who are not Israelites will come from distant countries because of your great name, mighty hand, and powerful arm. When they come to pray facing this Temple,

I will bring strangers, ruthless nations, upon you. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.

Suppose an Israelite or a foreigner who lives in Israel deserts me by devoting himself to idols and by allowing himself to sin. If he goes to a prophet to ask for my help, I, Jehovah, will give him an answer.

The uncircumcised man may not eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor Jehovah, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.

Foreigners will lose heart (lose courage). They will tremble when they come out of their fortifications.

Do not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan. Do not take a widow's garment in pledge.

Do not eat anything that dies by itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it. You may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

They were a few men in number, very few, and strangers in it.

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners destroy your fields in your presence. Your fields are devastated and taken over by strangers.

Foreigners obey and come crawling.

Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners living in Israel. He appointed stonecutters from among them to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.

The Athenians and the strangers who lived there spent their time doing nothing else except talking about and listening to new ideas.

Tell them: 'If Israelites or foreigners make burnt offerings or sacrifices,

The seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations. They publicly requested forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.

You may collect from a foreigner, but your hand should release that debt which is yours with your brother.

I will send foreigners to destroy Babylon like a wind that blows straw away. When that day of destruction comes, they will attack from every side and leave the land bare.

The same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.

You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property.

On that day, declares Jehovah of Hosts, I will break the yokes off your necks and tear off your ropes. Foreigners will no longer make you serve them.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time you spend here in reverence.

Finish paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing. Then you shall give it to the Levite, the stranger, and the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

It is written in the law: With men of other tongues and lips of foreigners I will speak to this people. Even then they will not listen to me, said Jehovah.

You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your brother (countrymen) you shall not charge interest. That way Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you undertake in the land you are about to possess.

Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town. Assemble them that they may hear and learn and respect Jehovah your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this Law.

Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen.

With stammering lips and another tongue he will speak to this people.

Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens. Their mouths speak deceit. Their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

They kill widows and foreigners, and they murder orphans.

The next generation of your children and foreigners who come from distant countries will see the plagues that have happened in this land and the diseases Jehovah sent here.

the noise of strangers like heat in a dry place, you subdued the heat with the shade of clouds; the song of the ruthless was stilled.

Foreigners are using up your strength, but you do not realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you do not realize it.

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,

Alien tyrants of the 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. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it.

You will know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through (invade) her any more.

On that day of Jehovah's sacrifice, said Jehovah, I will punish the officials, the king's sons, and all who practice foreign customs.

While they were few in number a small group of foreigners lived in that land.

By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.

You did not take care of my holy things. You put foreigners in charge of my Temple!'

You have made the city a heap, the mighty city a ruin. The palace of aliens is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.

You will die at the hands of foreigners like a godless person.' I have spoken, declares Jehovah.

When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Stretch forth your hand from on high. Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of aliens