Isaiah 56:3

New American Bible - revised edition

The foreigner joined to the Lord should not say, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people”; Nor should the eunuch say, “See, I am a dry tree.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:32

“To the foreigners, likewise, who are not of your people Israel, but who come from a distant land for the sake of your great name, your mighty hand and outstretched arm, and come in prayer to this house,

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will take pity on Jacob and again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own land; foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 39:7

Some of your own descendants, your progeny, shall be taken and made attendants in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Isaiah 56:5

I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name Better than sons and daughters; an eternal name, which shall not be cut off, will I give them.

Isaiah 56:6

And foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, To love the name of the Lord, to become his servants— All who keep the sabbath without profaning it and hold fast to my covenant,

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask for Zion, seeking out the way. “Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant, never to be forgotten.”

Leviticus 21:20

or who is a hunchback or dwarf or has a growth in the eye, or who is afflicted with sores, scabs, or crushed testicles.

Leviticus 25:45

You may also acquire them from among the resident aliens who reside with you, and from their families who are with you, those whom they bore in your land. These you may possess,

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord shall inspire them with terror when he makes all the gods of earth waste away; Then the distant shores of the nations, each from its own place, shall bow down to him.

Numbers 18:4

They will be joined to you to perform the duties associated with the tent of meeting, all the labor pertaining to the tent. But no unauthorized person shall come near you.

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons with you must take care to exercise your priesthood in whatever concerns the altar and the area within the veil. I give you your priesthood as a gift. Any unauthorized person who comes near shall be put to death. The Priests’ Share of the Sacrifices.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality.

Acts 17:4

Some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas; so, too, a great number of Greeks who were worshipers, and not a few of the prominent women.

Acts 18:7

So he left there and went to a house belonging to a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next to a synagogue.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in performing the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

Ephesians 2:12

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

Ephesians 2:22

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

Deuteronomy 23:9

Children born to them may come into the assembly of the Lord in the third generation. Cleanliness in Camp.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,