16 Bible Verses about Sojourning

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.

Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:

Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.