Strangers

Once customed to kill or enslave all strangers, each tribe feared and suspected those outside their clan. 70:3.6

Early man considered shedding alien blood a virtue, as individual irritations were submerged in group feelings, promoting intratribal tranquillity but at the expense of intertribal peace. 70:1.5

Do not confuse becoming as little children with mere quickness to trust pleasing strangers. 140:10.4

Sheep flee from strangers' voices, for they know not the true shepherd's call. 165:2.4

To one who knows God, all men are brothers; Ganid learned this through Jesus' ministry to strangers. 130:2.6

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Come as a child 140:10.4 — Mt 18:2-4; Mt 19:13-14; Mk 9:36-37; Mk 10:13-15; Lk 9:47-48; Lk 18:16-17. *False prophets*: Mt 7:15,22-23; Mt 24:11; Mk 13:22; 1 Jn 4:1. *Do not cast pearls before swine*: Mt 7:6.
• True shepherds 165:2.4 — Jn 10:1-5.
• Thieves and robbers 165:2.4 — Jn 10:8a.
• Don't know voice 165:2.4 — Jn 10:8b.