Bible Verses about “immigrants”
The Bible contains 36 verses about immigrants across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."”
“Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,”
“but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."”
“She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.”
“But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."”
“It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.”
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
“came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.”
“But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,”
“On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'”
“Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"”
“So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"”
“Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.”
“By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.”
“In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.”
“He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."”
“Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.”
“"You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.”
“He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into 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.”
“Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.”
“But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"”
“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;”
“"'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.”
“Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.”
“For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.”
“Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.”
“We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.”
“For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.”
“Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.”
“"'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.'"”
“'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'”
“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.”
“One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to 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.”