Thematic Bible: Pilgrims and strangers


Thematic Bible









If any one comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and even yet his own soul, he is not able to be my disciple. Whosoever does not carry his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

Come out from thy country and from thy kindred, and come hither into the land which I will show unto thee. Verse ConceptsAbrahamPilgrimsSeparating From Relativesland





And after his father died he migrated himself thence into this country in which you now dwell, and God gave him no inheritance in it, not the step of his foot; and he promised to give it to him, and his seed after him, for an inheritance, there being no child to him.


If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God; think about those things above, and not things upon the earth.



For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For in this we groan, longing to be invested with our house which is from heaven: if indeed having been invested, we shall not be found unclothed. read more.
For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life. But the one having wrought us out unto this same thing is God, the one having given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident even knowing that, being present in the body, we are absent from the Lord; (for we walk by faith, not by sight); but we are confident and delighted rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.







Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Verse ConceptsChristiansdispersion, theLettersPeter, The ApostlePeter, Preacher And TeacherPilgrimsThe Church ScatteredReckoned As ForeignersAlienspeterimpulsiveness






If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return; Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofSaints, As PilgrimsRight Time For PeopleReturning to their landOpportunitymindfulness








Then Peter responding said to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed Thee; what then shall be to us? Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPeter, The DiscipleSelf DenialSaints, As PilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfNever Giving Upfollowing


Then Peter responding said to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed Thee; what then shall be to us? Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPeter, The DiscipleSelf DenialSaints, As PilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfNever Giving Upfollowing






By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise: Verse ConceptsForeignersBeing A PilgrimJacob, The PatriarchAbraham, Calling And LifeSaints, As PilgrimsExploits Of FaithReckoned As ForeignersGod's Promise To Abraham

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise: Verse ConceptsForeignersBeing A PilgrimJacob, The PatriarchAbraham, Calling And LifeSaints, As PilgrimsExploits Of FaithReckoned As ForeignersGod's Promise To Abraham