21 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners

“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

At this remark, Moses fled and became an alien in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.

I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.

“Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.

If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

“O Hope of Israel,
Its Savior in time of distress,
Why are You like a stranger in the land
Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?

‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;