Bible Verses About Strangers

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

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:

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.

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.

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

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.

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.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

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 all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

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

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

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

The people of the land have used oppression , and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

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.

Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

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

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

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

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:

Let brotherly love continue.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;