Deuteronomy 10:19

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

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In Context

18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

20Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to 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 were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:8The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

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

Galatians 6:10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

1 John 3:17But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth 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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