24 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.

Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.

For there are men who, from birth, were without sex. There are some who were made that way by men. There are others who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this let him accept it.

By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.

They will ask for the way to Zion turning their faces in its direction. They will come to join themselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

Then Peter said: See, we have given up everything to follow you. What then will we have?

They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Because of this, God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared a city for them!

However, our citizenship is in heaven. We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever has an active faith in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God! It is not the result of works. So no man should boast.

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

He looked for the city having real foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time you spend here in reverence.

The world was not worthy of them! They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

He said: I am a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb that I can bury my dead wife.

Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.

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

Jesus wept.

Second, of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will not see me anymore.

Do not have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.

The Scriptures say: There is no one who is righteous,

I give them eternal life. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

If you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. If you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.