17 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim

These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

"For there are eunuchs who have been such from birth; others who have been made such by men; and others who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of God. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise.

Whereupon Peter said to Jesus. "Look, Master, we have forsaken everything and followed you. Now what shall be our reward?"

but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them.

But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift. It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it;

For he continually looked for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

And since you call upon him as Father, who impartially judges each one according to his deeds, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

Jesus burst into tears.

of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me; and of judgement,

As it is written. There is none righteous, no, not one;

"I am giving them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of my hand.

"For if you forgive men their offenses against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you also; "but if you do not forgive men your offenses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your offenses.