Concordance

“Foreigner” in the Bible

143 verses contain “foreigner” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible.

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Genesis 17:12 …ing those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your…
Genesis 17:27 And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
Genesis 19:9 …” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in…
Genesis 23:4 “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Genesis 26:3 Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I…
Genesis 28:4 And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
Exodus 2:22 And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Exodus 6:4 I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
Exodus 12:19 …. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of…
Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
Exodus 12:48 If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it,…
Exodus 12:49 The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
Exodus 18:3 along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Exodus 20:10 …r, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your…
Exodus 21:8 …st allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with…
Exodus 22:21 You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9 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.
Leviticus 16:29 …le yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among…
Leviticus 17:8 Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
Leviticus 17:10 If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’
Leviticus 17:13 And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.
Leviticus 17:15 And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean…
Leviticus 18:26 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
Leviticus 19:10 You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:33 When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
Leviticus 19:34 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.
Leviticus 20:2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
Leviticus 22:25 Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”
Leviticus 25:6 Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
Leviticus 25:23 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
Leviticus 25:35 … himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among…
Leviticus 25:45 You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
Leviticus 25:47 If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,
Numbers 9:14 If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the…
Numbers 15:14 And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he…
Numbers 15:15 … permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the…
Numbers 15:16 The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
Numbers 15:26 Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
Numbers 15:29 You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
Numbers 15:30 But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 19:10 … This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among…
Numbers 35:15 These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Deuteronomy 5:14 …nt, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you…
Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:19 So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 14:21 You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy…
Deuteronomy 14:29 …e (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD…
Deuteronomy 15:3 You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
Deuteronomy 16:11 …dservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among…
Deuteronomy 16:14 …enservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among…
Deuteronomy 17:15 …m among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your…
Deuteronomy 23:7 Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are…
Deuteronomy 24:14 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Deuteronomy 24:19 …f there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your…
Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 26:11 So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.
Deuteronomy 26:12 …he 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…
Deuteronomy 26:13 …use the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not…
Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 28:43 The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 29:11 your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
Deuteronomy 29:22 …hen the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has…
Deuteronomy 31:12 Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all…
Joshua 8:33 All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical…
Joshua 8:35 …ly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among…
Joshua 20:9 These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand…
Judges 19:12 But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
Ruth 2:10 … eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a…
2 Samuel 1:13 And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”
2 Samuel 4:3 because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
2 Samuel 15:19 …s? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your…
2 Samuel 22:45 Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
2 Samuel 22:46 Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
1 Kings 8:41 And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
1 Kings 8:43 … Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people…
2 Kings 8:1 …d to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the…
2 Kings 8:2 So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 22:2 So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.
1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
2 Chronicles 6:32 And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he…
2 Chronicles 6:33 … Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people…
2 Chronicles 30:25 …the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in…
Nehemiah 5:8 …e our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained…
Nehemiah 9:2 Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Job 15:19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
Job 19:15 My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
Psalms 18:44 When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
Psalms 18:45 Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Psalms 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
Psalms 94:6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
Psalms 144:7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
Psalms 144:11 Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Psalms 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Proverbs 5:10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
Proverbs 20:16 Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
Proverbs 27:13 Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
Isaiah 2:6 …ike the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of…
Isaiah 14:1 …e will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of…
Isaiah 25:5 like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
Isaiah 56:3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
Isaiah 56:6 And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants— all who keep the Sabbath without profaning…
Isaiah 60:10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
Isaiah 61:5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
Isaiah 62:8 …n will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have…
Jeremiah 5:19 … Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your…
Jeremiah 7:6 if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
Jeremiah 22:3 …m 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…
Jeremiah 50:37 …word is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be…
Jeremiah 51:51 “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Ezekiel 7:21 And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.
Ezekiel 11:9 I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.
Ezekiel 14:7 For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and…
Ezekiel 28:7 behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 28:10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 30:12 …ams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have…
Ezekiel 31:12 Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the…
Ezekiel 44:7 In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you…
Ezekiel 44:9 This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
Ezekiel 47:22 …shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along…
Ezekiel 47:23 In whatever tribe a foreigner dwells, you are to assign his inheritance there,” declares the Lord GOD.
Hosea 7:9 Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
Hosea 8:7 …prouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it…
Joel 3:17 Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
Obadiah 1:11 On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Malachi 3:5 …who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of…
Matthew 27:7 After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
Luke 17:18 Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”
Acts 7:6 God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Acts 7:29 At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
Acts 17:21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
1 Corinthians 14:11 If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.
Ephesians 2:19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
1 Peter 1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.