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, not having received the promised blessings, but having seen them from afar, and greeted them, and having professed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Our days

James 4:14
(whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? Ye are even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away;)

General references

Luke 17:10
So also do ye, when ye have done all that hath been commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were bound to do.