strangers
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2And do not be willing to forget hospitality. For by it, certain persons, without realizing it, have received Angels as guests.
35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
22Let there be equal judgment among you, whether it is a sojourner or a citizen who will have sinned. For I am the Lord your God.
3Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.
13in the difficulties of the saints, sharing; in hospitality, attentive.
49The law shall be the same for the native born and for the settler who sojourns with you.”
19Therefore, you also should love sojourners, for you also were new arrivals in the land of Egypt.
34but let him be among you like one native born. And you shall love him as yourselves. For you were also newcomers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
40And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’
5And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.