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Don’t oppress them<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>—<\/b><\/p>\n

Exo 22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Exo 23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jer 7:5-7 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If<\/i> ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jer 22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Eze 22:2, 7 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. . . . In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Zec 7:9, 10 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Legal Equality–<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Exo 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any<\/i> of these abominations; neither<\/i> any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and<\/i> all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD,<\/i> shall be put to death.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 24:22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I <\/span><\/span><\/span>am<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> the LORD your God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Num 9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Num 15:14-16 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever <\/span><\/span><\/span>be<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. One ordinance <\/span><\/span><\/span>shall be both<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth <\/span><\/span><\/span>with you,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye <\/span><\/span><\/span>are,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> so shall the stranger be before the LORD. <\/span><\/span><\/span>One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Num 15:26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were<\/i> in ignorance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Num 15:29, 30 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for<\/i> him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. But the soul that doeth ought<\/i> presumptuously, whether he be<\/i> born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Num 19:10, 11 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. <\/span><\/span><\/span>He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Num 35:15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both<\/i> for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes<\/i> between your brethren, and judge righteously between every<\/i> man and his brother, and the stranger that is<\/i> with him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor<\/i> of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 27:19 Cursed be<\/i> he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Be hospitable–<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every<\/i> grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am<\/i> the LORD your God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 19:33, 34 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But<\/i> the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am<\/i> the LORD your God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am<\/i> the LORD your God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be<\/i> a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 10:18, 19 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. <\/span><\/span>Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 14:29<\/a> And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are<\/i> within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is<\/i> within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are<\/i> among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 24:19-21 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. <\/span><\/span><\/span>When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean <\/span><\/span><\/span>it<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 26:11-13 And thou shalt rejoice in every good <\/span><\/span><\/span>thing<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that <\/span><\/span><\/span>is<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> among you. <\/span><\/span><\/span>When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, <\/span><\/span><\/span>which is<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> the year of tithing, and hast given <\/span><\/span><\/span>it<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of <\/span><\/span><\/span>mine<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten <\/span><\/span><\/span>them:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hospitality in Bible history–<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Gen 18:1-8 Abraham invited three stranger to his home for a meal (Christ and two angels)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Gen 19:1-3 Lot invited two strangers to his home for lodging (two angels)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jdg 6:11-21 Gideon offered lunch to an angel<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jdg 13:2-20 Manoah and his wife offered a lunch to an angel<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1Ki 17:10-16 a widow of Zarephath consented to lodge Elijah in spite of the famine<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2Ki 4:8 a woman of Shunem provided an apartment for Elisha to rest in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Job 31:32 Job invited strangers to his home<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mat 25:34-36 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Act 16:14, 15 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us:<\/i> whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us,<\/i> saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.<\/i> And she constrained us. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1Ti 5:9, 10 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tit 1:7, 8 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Heb 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1Pe 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

These acts of courtesy <\/i>(Abraham and Lot entertaining Heavenly Guests) God thought of sufficient importance to record in His word; and more than a thousand years later they were referred to by an inspired apostle: “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13:2.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The privilege granted Abraham and Lot is not denied to us. By showing hospitality to God’s children we, too, may receive His angels into our dwellings. Even in our day, angels in human form enter the homes of men and are entertained by them. And Christians who live in the light of God’s countenance are always accompanied by unseen angels, and these holy beings leave behind them a blessing in our homes. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

“A lover of hospitality” is among the specifications given by the Holy Spirit as marking one who is to bear responsibility in the church. And to the whole church is given the injunction: “Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” 1 Peter 4:9, 10. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

These admonitions have been strangely neglected. Even among those who profess to be Christians, true hospitality is little exercised. Among our own people the opportunity of showing hospitality is not regarded as it should be, as a privilege and blessing. There is altogether too little sociability, too little of a disposition to make room for two or three more at the family board, without embarrassment or parade. Some plead that “it is too much trouble.” It would not be if you would say: We have made no special preparation, but you are welcome to what we have.” By the unexpected guest a welcome is appreciated far more than is the most elaborate preparation. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It is a denial of Christ to make preparation for visitors which requires time that rightly belongs to the Lord. In this we commit robbery of God. And we wrong others as well. In preparing an elaborate entertainment, many deprive their own families of needed attention, and their example leads others to follow the same course. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Needless worries and burdens are created by the desire to make a display in entertaining visitors. In order to prepare a great variety for the table, the housewife over works; because of the many dishes prepared, the guests overeat; and disease and suffering, from overwork on the one hand and overeating on the other, are the result. These elaborate feasts are a burden and an injury. <\/i> 6T 342, 343<\/span><\/p>\n

Allow gleaning<\/b>—<\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 19:9, 10 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am<\/i> the LORD your God. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deu 24:19-21 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it<\/i> afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Treat strangers as brothers<\/b>—<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Exo 12:48, 49 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lev 19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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