Scripture teaches that showing kindness and hospitality to strangers is a vital aspect of Christian living. In Matthew 25:35, Jesus emphasizes the importance of welcoming the stranger, highlighting it as a key component of loving one's neighbor. The book of Leviticus also instructs the community to treat strangers with fairness and respect, as seen in Leviticus 24:22, while Hebrews 13:2 reminds believers to entertain strangers, as they may be entertaining angels unaware. Additionally, Jeremiah 22:3 and Romans 12:13 reinforce the importance of caring for the stranger, demonstrating God's heart for those who are marginalized or without a home.
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
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 took Me in,
You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.