Deuteronomy 10:19

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

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

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

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 by his name shalt thou swear.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:8The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.

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

Galatians 6:10So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

1 John 3:17But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide 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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