Quotes about Inclusion
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
— Deuteronomy 23:16
and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
— Joshua 19:2
At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
— Ruth 2:10
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet.
— 2 Samuel 9:13
Was he not more honored than the Three? And he became their commander, even though he was not included among the Three.
— 2 Samuel 23:19
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
— 1 Kings 8:41
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
— 2 Chronicles 6:32
As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
— 2 Chronicles 8:7
Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
— Job 1:4
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
— Psalm 69:28
and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
— Psalm 107:3
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
— Isaiah 43:6