26 Bible Verses about Saints, As Pilgrims
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Jesus told him: Foxes have holes and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.
Your locks will be iron and bronze. According to your days, so will your leisurely walk be.
As they pass through the dry valley of Baca, it becomes a place of springs; the autumn rain fills it with pools.
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.
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.
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!
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.
O send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me! Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling places.
However, our citizenship is in heaven. We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
How horrible it is to live as a foreigner in Meshech or to stay in the tents of Kedar. I have lived too long with those who hate peace.
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they came, they would have had opportunity to return.
That way you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. You are seen as lights in the world.
Moses said to his brother-in-law Hobab son of Jethro the Midianite: We are about to start out for the place Jehovah said he would give us. He promised to make Israel prosperous, so come with us, and we will share our prosperity with you.
How horrible it is to live as a foreigner in Meshech or to stay in the tents of Kedar. I have lived too long with those who hate peace. I am for peace, but when I talk about it, they only talk about war.
I gave them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make yourselves purses that do not get old, a treasure in heaven where moth and rest cannot corrupt and thieves cannot steal.
If you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Think about the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.
I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink. And do not worry about your body, what you will wear. Is life worth more than food? And is the body worth more than clothes?
We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands. In this we sigh (in silent prayer), longing to be clothed with our habitation that is from heaven. Indeed being clothed we will not be found naked.read more.
While in this tabernacle we groan and sigh with prayer. We are concerned that we would be clothed with what is mortal and be swallowed up (devoured) by this life. He that prepared us for this very purpose is God. He gave the Spirit to us as a guarantee (pledge) (security). We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
