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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Hebrews 11:13
All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only aliens and strangers on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.

Our days

James 4:14
And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

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Luke 17:10
And so with you--when you have done all that you have been told, still say 'We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.'"