Thematic Bible: Pilgrims and strangers
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Pilgrims and strangers » Saints confess themselves
These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Saints are called to be
Thus then every one of you who does not consecrate all his possessions, is not able to be my disciple.
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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.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified
of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and caves and dens of the earth.
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These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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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.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal:
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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.
Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves purses that will not get old, and treasure in the heavens which can not be stolen, where the thief does not draw nigh, nor the moth corrupt.
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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 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.
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.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are strengthened by God
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are exposed to persecution
I have given unto them thy word; and the world 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 » All saints are
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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Pilgrims and strangers » Typified
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Shine as lights in the world
in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have a heavenly conversation
For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not mindful of this world
If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an 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 country, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed 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 in mountains, and caves and dens of the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Keep the promises in view
These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly city
for he anticipated a city having foundations, whose builder and maker 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 responding said to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed Thee; what then shall be to us?
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Die in faith
These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » Apostles
Then Peter responding said to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed Thee; what then shall be to us?
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Pilgrims and strangers » God is not ashamed to be called their God
but now they seek a better country, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should not be over anxious about worldly things
Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment?
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts
Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars 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 upon the Father, the One judging without respect of persons according to the work of each, pass the time of your sojourn with fear,
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not at home in this world
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:
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are actuated by faith
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:
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Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » jacob
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » David
Pilgrims and strangers » Described
They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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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 nests; but the Son of man has not a place where He may recline His head.
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