Bible Verses About Immigrants
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for immigrants, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 755 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 Immigrants
Leviticus 19:33-34148 votes
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Exodus 22:2177 votes
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:1977 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Luke 10:29-4258 votes
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Matthew 2:1452 votes
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
Leviticus 18:2640 votes
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Hebrews 13:3-1440 votes
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Leviticus 23:2232 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.
Exodus 12:48-4927 votes
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Psalms 37:9-2327 votes
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
Jeremiah 7:5-727 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Ezekiel 47:2224 votes
And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Exodus 23:918 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.
Ezekiel 22:718 votes
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Psalms 146:916 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Philippians 3:2016 votes
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 11:9-1616 votes
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Deuteronomy 5:1414 votes
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Luke 1:5314 votes
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Acts 17:2614 votes
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
What does the Bible say about immigrants?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:33-34 on the subject of immigrants. Across 755 votes, 20 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 22:21, Deuteronomy 27:19, Luke 10:29-42. This page lists all 20 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.