21 Bible Verses about Reckoned As Foreigners
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I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And God spoke on this wise, That his offspring should sojourn in a foreign land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill four hundred years.
Then Moses fled at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; (for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:)
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be to you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Are we not counted by him strangers; for he hath sold us, and hath quite consumed also our money.
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.
Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian to me.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
O the hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a way-faring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
