27 Bible Verses about Foreigners
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It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow-citizens with Christ's People and members of God's Household.
Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.
All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only aliens and strangers on the earth.
So, after consultation, they bought with them the 'Potter's Field' for a burial-ground for foreigners;
(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)
And since you call upon him as 'Father,' who judges every one impartially by what he has done, let reverence be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay upon earth.
It is said in the Law-'In strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.'
It was faith that made him go to live as an emigrant in the Promised Land--as in a strange country--living there in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.
Topics on Foreigners
Attitudes Towards Foreigners
1 Thessalonians 4:12So that your conduct may win respect from those outside the Church, and that you may not want for anything.
Avoiding Foreigners
Matthew 10:5These twelve Jesus sent out as his Messengers, after giving them these instructions-- "Do not go to the Gentiles, nor enter any Samaritan town,
Foreigners In The Holy Places
Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be taken prisoners to every land, and 'Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles,' until their day is over--as it shall be.
Foreigners Included Among The People
Romans 15:10And again it says--'Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with God's People.'
Foreigners Included In The Law
Romans 2:14When Gentiles, who have no Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they, though they have no Law, are a Law to themselves;
Foreigners Saved By Faith
Romans 1:5Through him we received the gift of the Apostolic office, to win submission to the Faith among all nations for the glory of his Name.
Foreigners Subdued
Acts 26:17Since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,
Loving Foreigners
Matthew 25:35For, when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was a stranger, you took me to your homes;
Oppressing Foreigners
Matthew 25:43When I was a stranger, you did not take me to your homes; when I was naked, you did not clothe me; and, when I was ill and in prison, you did not visit me.'
Preaching Gospel To Foreigners
Acts 13:47For this is the Lord's command to us--'I have destined thee for a Light to the Gentiles, a means of Salvation to the ends of the earth'."
Reckoned As Foreigners
Hebrews 11:9It was faith that made him go to live as an emigrant in the Promised Land--as in a strange country--living there in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.
Relations With Foreigners
Luke 4:26And yet it was not to one of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidonia.
Suffering From Foreigners
Acts 21:11He came to see us, and, taking Paul's girdle, and binding his own feet and hands with it, said: "This is what the Holy Spirit says--'The man to whom this girdle belongs will be bound like this at Jerusalem by the Jews, and they will give him up to the Gentiles'."
What Foreigners Are Like
Matthew 6:32All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
What Foreigners Do
Matthew 5:47And, if you show courtesy to your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do this!
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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