Immigrants

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him; — read the full passage →

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?' — read the full passage →

And he, having risen, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Jehovah <FI> am<Fi> your God.'

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body; — read the full passage →

and ye--ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not <FI>any<Fi> of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and hath made a passover to Jehovah, every male of his <FI>is<Fi> to be circumcised, and then he doth come near to keep it, and he hath been as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one doth not eat of it; — read the full passage →

and it hath come to pass, ye separate it for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst, and they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye--ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,

by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise, — read the full passage →

and the seventh day <FI>is<Fi> a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

`And the man who is clean, and hath not been on a journey, and hath ceased to prepare the passover, even that person hath been cut off from his people; because the offering of Jehovah he hath not brought near, in its appointed season, that man doth bear his sin. — read the full passage →

The blessing of Jehovah--it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it. — read the full passage →

`And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name; — read the full passage →

and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, — read the full passage →

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light; — read the full passage →

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth--God; — read the full passage →

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.' — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu. — read the full passage →

And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low. — read the full passage →

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink. — read the full passage →

A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And <FI>to<Fi> a hungry soul every bitter thing <FI>is<Fi> sweet. — read the full passage →

And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, `If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept <FI>me<Fi> from evil--not to grieve me;' and God bringeth in that which he asked. — read the full passage →

Ye multiply not--ye speak haughtily--The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed. — read the full passage →

`Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and thy sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> within thy gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared Jehovah your God, and observed to do all the words of this law; — read the full passage →

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years; — read the full passage →

and I saw <FI>come<Fi> 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 like frogs-- — read the full passage →

and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river, — read the full passage →

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world. — read the full passage →

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.' — read the full passage →

for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him, — read the full passage →

(for he said to him, `Come forth, spirit unclean, out of the man,') — read the full passage →

and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all <FI>these<Fi> to come to pass, but the end is not yet. — read the full passage →

And now, to you <FI>is<Fi> this charge, O priests, — read the full passage →

And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off. — read the full passage →

and in those times many do stand up against the king of the south, and sons of the destroyers of thy people do lift themselves up to establish the vision--and they have stumbled. — read the full passage →

And thou, son of man, prophesy unto mountains of Israel, and thou hast said, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

I, Jehovah, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done <FI>it<Fi> , I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.' — read the full passage →

And Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> with me, as a terrible mighty one, Therefore my persecutors stumble and prevail not, They have been exceedingly ashamed, For they have not acted wisely, Confusion age-during is not forgotten. — read the full passage →

And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.' — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: `In a time of good pleasure I answered thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee, and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances. — read the full passage →

And I armed Egyptians against Egyptians, And they fought, each against his brother, And each against his neighbour, City against city, kingdom against kingdom. — read the full passage →

The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them. — read the full passage →

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised! — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' --A song. God <FI>is<Fi> to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely. — read the full passage →

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: -- — read the full passage →

If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me, — read the full passage →

and many days <FI>are<Fi> to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, — read the full passage →

And he saith, `Fear not, for more <FI>are<Fi> they who <FI>are<Fi> with us than they who <FI>are<Fi> with them.' — read the full passage →

Then doth Solomon assemble the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, princes of the fathers of the sons of Israel, unto king Solomon, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the city of David--it <FI>is<Fi> Zion; — read the full passage →

and ye--ye have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I add not to save you. — read the full passage →

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

And all Israel, and its elders, and authorities, and its judges, are standing on this side and on that of the ark, over-against the priests, the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the native, half of them over-against mount Gerizim, and the half of them over-against mount Ebal, as Moses servant of Jehovah commanded to bless the people of Israel at the first. — read the full passage →

`Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth; — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates; — read the full passage →

`All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers; — read the full passage →

if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey; — read the full passage →

and he who is execrating the name of Jehovah is certainly put to death; all the company do certainly cast stones at him; as a sojourner so a native, in his execrating the Name, is put to death. — read the full passage →

`This they do give, every one passing over unto those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel <FI>is<Fi> twenty gerahs); half a shekel <FI>is<Fi> the heave-offering to Jehovah; — read the full passage →

`Thou hast no other Gods before Me. — read the full passage →

Issacher <FI>is<Fi> a strong ass, Crouching between the two folds;

and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people <FI>is<Fi> one, and one pronunciation <FI>is<Fi> to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do. — read the full passage →

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

who did give himself a ransom for all--the testimony in its own times--

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be!

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor--because yours is the reign of God. — read the full passage →

`Happy the poor in spirit--because theirs is the reign of the heavens. — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried `Peace,' And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war.

Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit; — read the full passage →

Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely. — read the full passage →

`Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact. — read the full passage →

Woe, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee. — read the full passage →

Your land <FI>is<Fi> a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers! — read the full passage →

A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance. — read the full passage →

In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it. — read the full passage →

The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, — read the full passage →

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety <FI>him who<Fi> doth breathe for it. — read the full passage →

And of the sons of Issachar, having understanding for the times, to know what Israel should do; their heads <FI>are<Fi> two hundred, and all their brethren <FI>are<Fi> at their command. — read the full passage →

and the sons of Israel do covertly things that <FI>are<Fi> not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city, — read the full passage →

And David saith unto Abishai, `Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?'

And Saul saith, `There is no man put to death on this day, for to-day hath Jehovah wrought salvation in Israel.' — read the full passage →

thou dost not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of the dream, for Jehovah your God is trying you, to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul; — read the full passage →

And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner; — read the full passage →