'Strangers' in the Bible

Don't detest Edomites, since they are related to you. Don't detest Egyptians, either, because you were strangers in their land.

When you were few in number very few, and strangers at that

so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners.

They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will work your land and dress your vines.

"Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, and have scattered your favors to strangers under every green tree. But you haven't obeyed me,' declares the LORD.

When the people ask, "Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you are to say to them, "Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'"

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.

I'll give it as plunder into the control of strangers and as the spoils of war to the wicked who will invade the land to profane it.

"I'm bringing you out from the middle of it and I'm going to deliver you into the hands of strangers, because I'm going to carry out my sentence against you.

"On the day you just stood by, when strangers carried away Jacob's wealth and foreigners entered his gates, casting lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

"This is what God promised: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and its people would enslave them and oppress them for 400 years.

Supply the needs of the saints. Extend hospitality to strangers.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

Therefore, an elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, stable, sensible, respectable, hospitable to strangers, and teachable.

She must be well known for her good actions as a woman who has raised children, welcomed strangers, washed the saints' feet, helped the suffering, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

Instead, he must be hospitable to strangers, must appreciate what is good, and be sensible, honest, moral, and self-controlled.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

Stop neglecting to show hospitality to strangers, for by showing hospitality some have had angels as their guests without being aware of it.

If you call "Father" the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land.

Dear friend, you are faithful in whatever you do for the brothers, especially when they are strangers.