Deuteronomy 10:19
Good News Translation
So then, show love for those foreigners, because you were once foreigners in Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Contemporary English Version
And you should also care for them, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

New American Bible
So you too should love the resident alien, for that is what you were in the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:21 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:33,34 If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid hin: . . .

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Luke 10:28-37 And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live. . . .

Luke 17:18 There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this stranger.

Galatians 6:10 Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

James 2:15,16 And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food: . . .

1 John 3:17,18 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? . . .

Context
A Call to Obedience
18He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment. 19And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:21
Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:34
But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Ezekiel 47:22
And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that shall come over to you, that shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as men of the same country born among the children of Israel: they shall divide the possession with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47:23
And in what tribe soever the stranger shall be, there shall you give him possession, saith the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 10:18
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