17 Bible Verses about Saints, As Pilgrims
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And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven nests; but the Son of man has not a place where He may recline His head.
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:
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.
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.
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,
For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return;
in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
I have given unto them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal:
Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves purses that will not get old, and treasure in the heavens which can not be stolen, where the thief does not draw nigh, nor the moth corrupt.
If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God; think about those things above, and not things upon the earth.
Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment?
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For in this we groan, longing to be invested with our house which is from heaven: if indeed having been invested, we shall not be found unclothed.read more.
For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life. But the one having wrought us out unto this same thing is God, the one having given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident even knowing that, being present in the body, we are absent from the Lord; (for we walk by faith, not by sight); but we are confident and delighted rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.
