Deuteronomy 10:19

'And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

20'Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21'And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:8sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

Luke 10:28And he said to him, 'Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

Galatians 6:10therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

1 John 3:17and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him — how doth the love of God remain 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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