Immigrants

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

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

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

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

He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

“‘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.’”

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. — 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;

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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 has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. — read the full passage →

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

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,

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. — read the full passage →

Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. — read the full passage →

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — read the full passage →

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. — read the full passage →

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.” — read the full passage →

In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. — read the full passage →

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible. — read the full passage →

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’ — read the full passage →

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. — read the full passage →

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!” God granted him that which he requested. — read the full passage →

“Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed. — 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; — read the full passage →

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. — read the full passage →

I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; — read the full passage →

The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.” — read the full passage →

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

For he said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” — read the full passage →

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. — read the full passage →

“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. — read the full passage →

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words. — read the full passage →

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off. — read the full passage →

In those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall. — read the full passage →

You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word. — read the full passage →

I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. — read the full passage →

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, “In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage: — read the full passage →

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. — read the full passage →

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. — read the full passage →

Moreover Yahweh answered Job, — read the full passage →

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. — read the full passage →

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. — read the full passage →

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” — read the full passage →

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. — read the full passage →

Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more. — read the full passage →

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. — read the full passage →

If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

“You shall have no other gods before me. — read the full passage →

“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit. — read the full passage →

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. — read the full passage →

‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors. — read the full passage →

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed. — read the full passage →

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. — read the full passage →

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers. — read the full passage →

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. — read the full passage →

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. — read the full passage →

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.” — read the full passage →

Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment. — read the full passage →

The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; — read the full passage →

David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

Saul said, “There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.” — read the full passage →

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →