Thematic Bible: As saints they
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
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If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
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For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven; if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked. read more.
For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are strengthened by God
Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.
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Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are exposed to persecution
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
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They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Shine as lights in the world
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have a heavenly conversation
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not mindful of this world
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Invite others to go with them
Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel."
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly country
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, 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
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Keep the promises in view
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims 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 the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Hate worldly fellowship
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Forsake all for Christ
Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Die in faith
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should not be over anxious about worldly things
Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life 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 beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Rejoice in the statutes of God
Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pass their sojourning in fear
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not at home in this world
By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are actuated by faith
By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have the example of Christ
Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
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