18 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim

These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

For there are eunuchs, who have been so born from the womb of their mother. And there are eunuchs, who have been eunuchized by men: and there are eunuchs, who eunuchized themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise:

Then Peter responding said to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed Thee; what then shall be to us?

but now they seek a better country, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one believing on Him may not perish but have eternal life.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, in order that no one may boast:

for he anticipated a city having foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

And if you call upon the Father, the One judging without respect of persons according to the work of each, pass the time of your sojourn with fear,

of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and caves and dens of the earth.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all loyalty, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the perfect knowledge of God.

Jesus wept.

because I go to the Father, and you see me no more;

as has been written, There is no one good, not one:

and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand.

For if you may not forgive the people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will not forgive you: and if you do not forgive the people, your Father will not forgive you your trespasses.