Foreigners

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. — read the full passage →

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. — read the full passage →

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

“Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name’s sake — read the full passage →

It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

In you have they set light by father and mother; in your midst have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. — read the full passage →

You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in your midst.

When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.

It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. — read the full passage →

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

“‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.” — read the full passage →

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. — read the full passage →

“He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, — read the full passage →

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. — read the full passage →

‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward. — read the full passage →

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:

Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. — read the full passage →

A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, — read the full passage →

When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it, and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”; — read the full passage →

For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel. — read the full passage →

He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever;

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; — read the full passage →

He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. — read the full passage →