Bible Verses About Treating Foreigners
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for treating foreigners, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 15,090 votes, led by Leviticus 19:34. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Treating Foreigners
Leviticus 19:34473 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.
Leviticus 19:33-34469 votes
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Exodus 23:9456 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 22:21387 votes
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19334 votes
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Psalms 146:9330 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Matthew 25:35297 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:
Deuteronomy 10:18-19280 votes
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Hebrews 13:2276 votes
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Malachi 3:5266 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.
Deuteronomy 27:19232 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Leviticus 24:22210 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.
Leviticus 23:22208 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 12:49199 votes
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Jeremiah 22:3185 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.
Romans 12:13181 votes
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Leviticus 25:35180 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.
Jeremiah 7:5-7175 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Ephesians 2:19173 votes
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Deuteronomy 23:7165 votes
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
Numbers 15:16162 votes
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Isaiah 1:17162 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:14157 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:
Ezekiel 47:22154 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.
Deuteronomy 10:18148 votes
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
What does the Bible say about treating foreigners?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:34 on the subject of treating foreigners. Across 15,090 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 19:33-34, Exodus 23:9, Exodus 22:21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.