Thematic Bible: As saints they
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.
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IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God; employ your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.
Sell your property and bestow charity; make yourselves purses that become not old, and a treasury that fails not, in heaven, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was destroyed, we have an edifice from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven, if indeed also having put it on we may not be found naked. read more.
For being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to put it off, but to put on [the other], that the mortal may be swallowed up by life. And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit. Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
For being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to put it off, but to put on [the other], that the mortal may be swallowed up by life. And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit. Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present 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 thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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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
that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have a heavenly conversation
But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the 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 remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;
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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 now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » The world is not worthy of
of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Keep the promises in view
All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly city
for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer 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 and said, Behold we have left all and followed you; what shall we have therefore?
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Die in faith
All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should not be over anxious about worldly things
On this account I tell you, be not anxious for your soul, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on, is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against 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 call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, spend the time of your life with fear,
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not at home in this world
By faith he resided temporarily in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are actuated by faith
By faith he resided temporarily in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have the example of Christ
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven places of shelter; but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.
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