1 Chronicles 29:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

For we

1 Peter 2:11

Our days

James 4:14

General references

Genesis 21:34

Haggai 2:8

Luke 17:10

Bible References

For we

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The

years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

Our days

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.

My days are like a

lengthened shadow,

And I wither away like grass.

Man is like a mere breath;

His days are like a passing shadow.

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

A voice says, “Call out.”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”

All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

General references

And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the Lord of hosts.

So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”