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
Our days
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Bible References
For we
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.
Our days
James 4:14
when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.
General references
Luke 17:10
"Even so, you also, after you have done all the things that are commanded you, should say, 'We are but slaves, we have only done what it was our duty to do.'"