Thematic Bible: Pilgrims and strangers
Thematic Bible
Pilgrims and strangers » Saints confess themselves
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Pilgrims and strangers » Saints are called to be
Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
So therefore whoever of you who does not renounce all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.
"If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living. He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove. Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For truly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, since, after we have put it on, we will not be found naked. read more.
For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are strengthened by God
Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are exposed to persecution
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar. My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, "Come, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten."
Pilgrims and strangers » All saints are
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Diaspora in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Pilgrims and strangers » Typified
I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as foreigners.
This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Shine as lights in the world
that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have a heavenly conversation
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not mindful of this world
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Invite others to go with them
Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel."
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, "Come, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten."
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly country
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » The world is not worthy of
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Keep the promises in view
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly city
For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Hate worldly fellowship
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar. My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Forsake all for Christ
Then Peter answered, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Die in faith
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » Apostles
Then Peter answered, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
Pilgrims and strangers » God is not ashamed to be called their God
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should not be over anxious about worldly things
Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Rejoice in the statutes of God
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pass their sojourning in fear
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not at home in this world
By faith, he lived as a foreigner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are actuated by faith
By faith, he lived as a foreigner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » jacob
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » David
"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Pilgrims and strangers » Described
They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have the example of Christ
And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."