Bible Verses About Foreigners
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for foreigners, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 105,374 votes, led by Leviticus 19:33-34. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Foreigners
Leviticus 19:33-343,591 votes
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Exodus 23:93,261 votes
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:213,034 votes
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:192,863 votes
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:342,490 votes
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.
Hebrews 13:22,469 votes
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Psalms 146:92,410 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Malachi 3:52,241 votes
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Matthew 25:352,009 votes
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Leviticus 24:221,855 votes
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.
Ephesians 2:191,602 votes
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Leviticus 23:221,537 votes
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:101,513 votes
And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Jeremiah 7:5-71,445 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Deuteronomy 27:191,420 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Jeremiah 22:31,418 votes
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Deuteronomy 10:18-191,310 votes
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Romans 12:131,274 votes
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
1 Peter 2:111,197 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Deuteronomy 24:141,175 votes
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
James 1:271,145 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Exodus 12:491,144 votes
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Philippians 3:201,122 votes
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Leviticus 25:351,103 votes
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Colossians 3:111,080 votes
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
What does the Bible say about foreigners?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:33-34 on the subject of foreigners. Across 105,374 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 23:9, Exodus 22:21, Deuteronomy 10:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.