Quotes about Inclusion
Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
— Deuteronomy 23:7
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
— Deuteronomy 23:16
and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
— Joshua 19:2
At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
— Ruth 2:10
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet.
— 2 Samuel 9:13
Was he not more honored than the Three? And he became their commander, even though he was not included among the Three.
— 2 Samuel 23:19
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
— 1 Kings 8:41
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
— 2 Chronicles 6:32
As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
— 2 Chronicles 8:7
Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
— Job 1:4
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
— Psalm 69:28
and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
— Psalm 107:3