Quotes About Inclusion

Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

The genealogy included all the little ones, wives, sons, and daughters in the whole assembly. For they had faithfully consecrated themselves as holy.

Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.

I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the childrenís bread and toss it to the dogs.”

ëBecause no one has hired us,í they answered. So he told them, ëYou also go into my vineyard.í

Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.í

But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,

The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ëGo out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.í

So the master told his servant, ëGo out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

“Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”