Isaiah 56:3

Revised Standard Version

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:17

But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

Ephesians 2:22

in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Romans 15:16

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

Acts 17:4

And some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas; as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.

Acts 10:34

And Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality,

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be terrible against them; yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant which will never be forgotten.’

Isaiah 56:5

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

Isaiah 39:7

And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Isaiah 14:1

The Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and aliens will join them and will cleave to the house of Jacob.

Numbers 18:7

And you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any one else who comes near shall be put to death.”

Numbers 18:4

They shall join you, and attend to the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and no one else shall come near you.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Acts 18:7

And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next door to the synagogue.

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;

2 Chronicles 6:32

“Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and thy outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,

Isaiah 56:6

“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, every one who keeps the sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—

Leviticus 25:45

You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.

Deuteronomy 23:9

“When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

Esther 9:27

the Jews ordained and took it upon themselves and their descendants and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,