Bible Verses About Immigration

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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:

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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.

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

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.

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

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.

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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:

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

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.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

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.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: