Bible Verses about “treating foreigners”
The Bible contains 11 verses about treating foreigners across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
“"You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens 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.”
“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.”
“"'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.”
“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”
“He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.”
“Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.”
“'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'”
“"You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.”