21 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners
Most Relevant Verses
"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."
By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, "I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land."
and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land"),
The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,
Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!
My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.
If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.
You have been the object of Israel's hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?
The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.
From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad (in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen
These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.
Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one's work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
