Deuteronomy 10:19

And ye shall love the stranger; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

In Context

18who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.

20Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him thou shalt serve, and unto him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:8Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.

Luke 10:28And he said to him, Thou hast answered right: this do and thou shalt live.

Galatians 6:10So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

1 John 3:17But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:13-22

Exhortation to Obedience. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Lord , and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to… Read the whole commentary →

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