'Strangers' in the Bible

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.

May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.

Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

Take a man's garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

"'Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive, and foreigners advanced to his gates. When they cast lots over Jerusalem, you behaved as though you were in league with them.

It is written in the law: "By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me," says the Lord.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

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 friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).