Genesis 12:1-2 (NIV) - "The Lord had said to Abram, 'Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you.'
Exodus 23:9 (NIV) - "Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt."
Ruth 1:16-17 (NIV) — "But Ruth replied, 'Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”
25/02/9 & 23
Ruth 2:10 (NIV) — "At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, 'Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?"
Psalm 146:9 (NIV) - "The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked."
25/03/9 & 23Leviticus 19:33-34 (NIV) - "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
Deuteronomy 10:19 (NIV) - "And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt."
25/04/13 & 27Matthew 25:35 (NIV) - "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in."
Hebrews 13:2 (NIV) - "Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it."
Philippians 3:20 (NIV) - "But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ."
Isaiah 43:19 (NIV) - "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."
25/06/8 & 25Psalm 121:8 (NIV) - "The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore."
Isaiah 58:10-11 (NIV) - "If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday."
25/07/13 & 27Jeremiah 29:7 (NIV) - "Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."
Romans 12:13 (NIV) - "Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality."
25/08/10 & 24Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV) - "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
Micah 6:8 (NIV) - "He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Ephesians 2:19 (NIV) - "Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household."
Proverbs 19:17 (NIV) - "Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done."
25/10/05 & 19Matthew 8:20 (NIV) - "Jesus replied, 'Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.'" Reflection: Jesus’ own experience of homelessness and displacement.
James 2:5 (NIV) - "Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?"
25/11/09 & 16Isaiah 40:31 (NIV) - "But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
Psalm 91:1-2 (NIV) - "Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say
25/12/7 & 21