Refugees
Leviticus 19:33 BSB
When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
Leviticus 19:34 BSB
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 10:18 BSB
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:19 BSB
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:21 BSB
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9 BSB
Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Matthew 25:35 BSB
For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
Hebrews 13:2 BSB
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Jeremiah 22:3 BSB
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Zechariah 7:10 BSB
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Psalm 146:9 BSB
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Deuteronomy 24:17 BSB
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Deuteronomy 27:19 BSB
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Leviticus 25:35 BSB
Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
Numbers 15:15 BSB
The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.
Deuteronomy 26:12 BSB
When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
Ruth 2:10 BSB
At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
Ruth 2:12 BSB
May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
Ephesians 2:19 BSB
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
Isaiah 58:7 BSB
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?