Isaiah 56:3

Modern English Version

Do not let the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak, saying, “The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”; do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:32

“When foreigners are not from Your people Israel and come from a distant land, because of Your great name, mighty hand, and outstretched arm, and they come and pray toward this house,

Esther 9:27

the Jews instituted and accepted as tradition for themselves, for their descendants, and for all joining with them not to fail in observing the celebration of these two days as prescribed and as specified in each and every year.

Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. Then the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 39:7

And some of your sons who descend from you, whom you shall father, shall be taken away. And they shall become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Isaiah 56:5

to them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, and a name better than that of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 56:6

Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, and to be His servants, to everyone who keeps from polluting the Sabbath and takes hold of My covenant,

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask for the way to Zion with their faces in its direction. They will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten.

Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scabs, or is a eunuch.

Leviticus 25:45

Moreover of the foreigners who sojourn among you and of their families who are with you, who were born in your land, you may also buy from them, and they may be your possession.

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be dreadful to them, for He will weaken all the gods of the earth; men will worship Him, each from his place, all the lands of the nations.

Numbers 18:4

They will be joined to you and perform the duties of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; no foreigner will come near you.

Numbers 18:7

And you and your sons with you will attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar, and within the veil, and you will serve. I have given your priesthood to you as a gift service, and the foreigner that comes near will be put to death.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter began to speak, saying, “Truthfully, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.

Acts 17:4

Some of them were persuaded and joined with Paul and Silas, including a great crowd of devout Greeks and many leading women.

Acts 18:7

Then he departed from there and entered the house of a man named Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Romans 15:16

that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.

Ephesians 2:12

were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:22

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.

Deuteronomy 23:9

When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the refugees scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,