“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”— Leviticus 19:33-34, amazon.com
“I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice.”— Malachi 3:5, amazon.com
“You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. "He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him.”— Deuteronomy 23:15-16, amazon.com
“Jesus said: ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite,…”— Luke 10:30-37, amazon.com
“Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”— Luke 3:11, amazon.com
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.”— Hebrews 13:2, amazon.com
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ ‘Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord,…”— Matthew 25:35-40, amazon.com
“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what…”— James 2:14-17, amazon.com
“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?”— 1 John 3:17, amazon.com
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”— Philippians 2:3-4, amazon.com
“As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name— for they will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple, then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatev…”— 1 Kings 8:41-44, amazon.com
“For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”— Galatians 5:14, amazon.com