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Bible Verses About Aliens: To be treated with justice

13 verses · 13 aspects

Verses on To be treated with justice

  1. "You must neither wrong nor oppress a foreigner living among you, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  2. "You are not to oppress a foreigner, for you know how a foreigner feels, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  3. "'If a foreigner stays with you in your land, do not do him wrong.

  4. Rather, treat the foreigner staying with you like the native-born among you - you are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am ADONAI your God.

  5. At that time I commissioned your judges, 'Hear the cases that arise between your brothers; and judge fairly between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is with him.

  6. Therefore you are to love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  7. "You are not to exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or a foreigner living in your land in your town.

  8. "You are not to deprive the foreigner or the orphan of the justice which is his due, and you are not to take a widow's clothing as collateral for a loan.

  9. "'A curse on anyone who interferes with justice for the foreigner, orphan or widow.'All the people are to say, 'Amen!'

  10. if you stop oppressing foreigners, orphans and widows; if you stop shedding innocent blood in this place; and if you stop following other gods, to your own harm;

  11. This is what ADONAI says: "Do what is right and just; rescue the wronged from their oppressors; do nothing wrong or violent to the stranger, orphan or widow; don't shed innocent blood in this place.

  12. The people of the land have extorted, robbed, wronged the poor and needy and unjustly oppressed foreigners.

  13. "Then I will approach you for judgment; and I will be quick to witness against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; against those who take advantage of wage-earners, widows and orphans; against those who rob the foreigner of his rights and don't fear me," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.