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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Bible References

For we

Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, without receiving what was promised, having only a distant view of what they eagerly expected, professing to live as strangers and pilgrims in the land.
1 Peter 2:11
but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

Our days

James 4:14
how do you know, what will happen to-morrow? for, "what is your life?" a vapour that just appears, and then vanishes.

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Luke 17:10
so when you have done all that you were commanded to do, say, we are unprofitable servants; we have only done what was our duty to do.