Thematic Bible: As saints they
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.
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So if you have been raised to life in fellowship with Christ, keep on seeking the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Practice occupying your minds with the things above, not with the things on earth;
Sell your property and give to charity. Provide for yourselves purses that will never wear out, riches that never fail in heaven, where a thief cannot come near nor a moth destroy,
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
For I know that if this earthly tent in which I live is taken down, I have a building in heaven which comes from God, a house not built by human hands but eternal. For in this one I am sighing, because I long to put on, like a robe, my heavenly body, my future home, and if I do put it on, I shall not find myself to be disembodied. read more.
For I who am still in my tent am sighing beneath my burdens, because I do not want it to be put off but to put on the other over it, so that my dying body may be absorbed in life. Now it is God Himself who has put the finishing touches on me for this change, because He has given me the Spirit as the first installment of future bliss. So I am always cheerful and confident, although I know that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from home and the Lord (for here I live by what I believe and not by what I see), and yet I am cheerful and confident, but really I prefer to be away from home in the body and to be at home with the Lord.
For I who am still in my tent am sighing beneath my burdens, because I do not want it to be put off but to put on the other over it, so that my dying body may be absorbed in life. Now it is God Himself who has put the finishing touches on me for this change, because He has given me the Spirit as the first installment of future bliss. So I am always cheerful and confident, although I know that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from home and the Lord (for here I live by what I believe and not by what I see), and yet I am cheerful and confident, but really I prefer to be away from home in the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are strengthened by God
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are exposed to persecution
I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Shine as lights in the world
so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have a heavenly conversation
But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not mindful of this world
And if they had been cherishing the memory of the country they had left, they would have had an opportunity to go back.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Invite others to go with them
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly country
But in reality they were aspiring for a better country, I mean, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » The world is not worthy of
men of whom the world was not worthy, though wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Keep the promises in view
These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly city
For he was confidently looking forward to that city with the solid foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Hate worldly fellowship
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Forsake all for Christ
Then Peter answered Him, "We have left everything we had and followed you. What then are we to get?"
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Die in faith
These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should not be over anxious about worldly things
So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Rejoice in the statutes of God
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pass their sojourning in fear
And if you address as Father, Him who judges everyone impartially in accordance with what he does, you must live reverently all your fleeting stay on earth,
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not at home in this world
By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are actuated by faith
By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have the example of Christ
But Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."
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