9 Bible Verses about What Foreigners Are Like

But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

For the [pagan] Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; [but do not worry,] for your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

For all the [pagan] nations of the world greedily seek these things; and your [heavenly] Father [already] knows that you need them.

Whose mouths speak deceit [without restraint],
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Set me free and rescue me from the hand of [hostile] foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks deceit [without restraint],
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

So this I say, and solemnly affirm together with the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the [unbelieving] Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds [and in the foolishness and emptiness of their souls],

remember that at that time you were separated from Christ [excluded from any relationship with Him], alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise [with no share in the sacred Messianic promise and without knowledge of God’s agreements], having no hope [in His promise] and [living] in the world without God.

not [to be used] in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God and are ignorant of His will;

[I went on to say] “We are Jews by birth and not sinners from among the Gentiles;