Bible Verses About Strangers
This collection includes 50 passages about Strangers. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Scripture Passages
Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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