21 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners
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He said: I am a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb that I can bury my dead wife.
By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.
Jehovah said to Abram: Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers (aliens) in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.
God spoke to this effect, that his seed would be alien residents in a strange land. They would enslave them, and mistreat them for four hundred years.
When he heard this talk Moses fled and became a stranger in the land of Median, where he became father to two sons.
She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said: I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Moses was still a foreigner in Midian when his first son was born. Moses said: I will name him Gershom.
Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.
Are we not accounted as foreigners by him? He sold us and also utterly consumed the price paid for us.
My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.
Therefore if I do not know the meaning of what someone is saying I will be a foreigner to him that speaks. And he that speaks will be a foreigner to me too.
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.
You are Israel's hope, its savior in times of trouble. Why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only one night?
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are temporary residents scattered in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time you spend here in reverence.
