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.

Our days

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For we

Hebrews 11:13
All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

Our days

James 4:14
when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

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Luke 17:10
So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "