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

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Our days

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

The voice said, } Cry. { And he said, What shall I cry? {} All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is as the flower of the field:

Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

General references

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.

So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.