8 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners

Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.

This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years,

At those words Moses fled, and went and lived for a time in Midian, and two sons were born to him there.

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall seem to the man who is speaking to be a foreigner, and he will seem to me to be one too.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are scattered as foreigners over Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here,