Scriptural References about Immigrants/Aliens/Foreigners
Ex
22:21 - "Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in
Egypt.
Ex 23:9 - "Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be
aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt.
Le 19:10 - Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that
have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord
your God. (see also Le 23:22)
Le 19:33-34 - "'When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The
alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born.
Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the Lord
your God.
Le 24:22 - You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am
the Lord your God.'"
Nu 15:15 - The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien
living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to
come. You and the alien shall be the same before the Lord.
De 10:18 - He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the
alien, giving him food and clothing.
De 23:7 Do not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not abhor an
Egyptian, because you lived as an alien in his country.
De 24:14 -Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he
is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns.
De 24:17-21 -Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the
cloak of the widow as a pledge. Remember that you were slaves in
Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I
command you to do this. When you are harvesting in your field and
you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the
alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may
bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat the olives
from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave
what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow. When you
harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again.
Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.
De 26:12 - When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in
the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the
Levite, the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may
eat in your towns and be satisfied. Then say to the Lord your God:
"I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it
to the Levite, the alien, the fatherless and the widow, according to
all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor
have I forgotten any of them.
De 27:19 - "Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the
fatherless or the widow." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
Ps 146:9 - The Lord watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the
widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Jer 22:3 - This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the
hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or
violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed
innocent blood in this place.
Jer 7:5-7 -
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other
justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow
and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not
follow other gods to your own harm, 7 then I will let you live in
this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever.
Eze 22:29 -
The people of the land
practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and
needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice.
Zec 7:10 -
Do not oppress the widow
or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not
think evil of each other.'
Mat 2:13-15 When
they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.
"Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to
Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for
the child to kill him." 14 So
he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left
for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was
fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt
I called my son."
Mat 25:40
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of
the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
Luk 10:25-37
When Jesus was asked, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus told the story of
an foreigner, a Samaritan.
Gal 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you
are all one in Christ Jesus
Col 3:11 -
Here there is no Greek
or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or
free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
Compiled from the NIV by Rev. Owen K Ross,
www.ChristsFoundry.org