Isaiah 56:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

No foreigner who has joined himself to the  Lord should say, ‘The Lord will exclude me from his people,’ and the eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am a dried-up tree.’

Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:17

But anyone joined  to the Lord is one spirit  with him.

Ephesians 2:22

In him you are also being built together  for God’s dwelling  in the Spirit.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles,  serving as a priest of the gospel of God.  God’s purpose is that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering,  sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Acts 17:4

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a large number of God-fearing Greeks, as well as a number of the leading women.

Acts 10:34

Peter began to speak: ‘Now I truly understand that God doesn’t show favouritism,

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be terrifying to them when he starves all the gods of the earth. Then all the distant coasts and islands of the nations will bow in worship to him, each in its own place.

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask about Zion, turning their faces to this road. They will come and join themselves  to the  Lord in a permanent covenant  that will never be forgotten.

Isaiah 56:5

I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give each of them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.

Isaiah 39:7

“Some of your descendants #– #who come from you, whom you father #– #will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” ’

Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have compassion  on Jacob and will choose Israel again.  He will settle them on their own land.  The resident foreigner will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities  for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,  but an unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.’

Numbers 18:4

They are to join you and guard the tent of meeting, doing all the work at the tent, but no unauthorised person may come near you.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter,  an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those chosen, living as exiles  dispersed  abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  chosen

Acts 18:7

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise,  without hope  and without God in the world.

Leviticus 21:20

or who is a hunchback or a dwarf,  , or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs,  or a crushed testicle.

2 Chronicles 6:32

Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your strong hand and outstretched arm: when he comes and prays towards this temple,

Isaiah 56:6

As for the foreigners who join themselves to the  Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to become his servants – all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold firmly to my covenant –

Leviticus 25:45

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing with you, or from their families living among you #– #those born in your land. These may become your property.

Deuteronomy 23:9

‘When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.

Esther 9:27

the Jews bound themselves, their descendants, and all who joined  with them to a commitment that they would not fail to celebrate these two days each and every year according to the written instructions and according to the time appointed.