27 Bible Verses about Foreigners

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You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.

Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.

All these died in the possession of faith. They had not received the promised blessings, but had seen them from a distance and had greeted them, and had acknowledged themselves to be foreigners and strangers here on earth;

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So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;

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(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,

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In the Law it stands written, "'By men of unknown tongues and by the lips of an unknown nation will I speak to this People, but even then they will not listen to Me', says the Lord."

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Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;

Topics on Foreigners

Attitudes Towards Foreigners

1 Thessalonians 4:12

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so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one.

Avoiding Foreigners

Matthew 10:5

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These twelve Jesus sent on a mission, after giving them their instructions: "Go not," He said, "among the Gentiles, and enter no Samaritan town;

Exiled Foreigners

Foreigners In The Holy Places

Luke 21:24

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They will fall by the sword, or be carried off into slavery among all the Gentiles. And Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles, till the appointed times of the Gentiles have expired.

Foreigners Included Among The People

Romans 15:10

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And again the Psalmist says, "Be glad, ye Gentiles, in company with His People."

Foreigners Included In The Law

Romans 2:14

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For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, are a Law to themselves;

Foreigners Permitted At The Feasts

Foreigners Saved By Faith

Romans 1:5

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through whom we have received grace and Apostleship in His service in order to win men to obedience to the faith, among all Gentile peoples,

Foreigners Subdued

Acts 26:17

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I will save you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you to open their eyes,

Laws Restricting Foreigners

Loving Foreigners

Matthew 25:35

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For when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was homeless, you gave me a welcome;

Numbers Of Foreigners Killed

Oppressing Foreigners

Matthew 25:43

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when homeless, you gave me no welcome; ill-clad, you clothed me not; sick or in prison, you visited me not.'

Preaching Gospel To Foreigners

Acts 13:47

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For such is the Lord's command to us. "'I have placed Thee,' He says of Christ, 'as a light to the Gentiles, in order that Thou mayest be a Saviour as far as the remotest parts of the earth.'"

Reckoned As Foreigners

Hebrews 11:9

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Relations With Foreigners

Luke 4:26

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and yet to not one of them was Elijah sent: he was only sent to a widow at Zarephath in the Sidonian country.

Suffering From Foreigners

Acts 21:11

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When he arrived he took Paul's loincloth, and bound his own feet and arms with it, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'So will the Jews in Jerusalem bind the owner of this loincloth, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"