24 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

For there are some eunuchs who were that way from birth, and some who were made eunuchs by others, and some who became eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it."

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Then Peter said to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?"

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

But our citizenship is in heaven -- and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one's work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects -- bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Jesus wept.

concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.

just as it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one,

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

"For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.