Thematic Bible: Pilgrims and strangers
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Pilgrims and strangers » Saints confess themselves
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
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Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.
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For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
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I am a stranger in the earth, thou wilt not hide thy commands from me.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Saints are called to be
And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee.
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So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.
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If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple. And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple.
And he said to him, Come out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.
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According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
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I am a sojourner and stranger with you: give me the possession of a grave with you, and I will bury my dead from my face.
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For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
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Then having come out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Charran: and thence, after his father died, he transplanted him into this land, in which ye now dwell. And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
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If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth.
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
And saying, Who will give me the wing-feather as a dove? I will fly away and settle down.
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For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on: If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked. read more.
For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life. And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit. Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:) And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.
For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life. And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit. Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:) And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are strengthened by God
Thy bolt, iron and brass; and as thy days, thy rest.
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Passing through in the valley of Baca they will set it a fountain; also the early rain will cover the ponds. They will go from strength to strength, being seen in Zion to God.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are exposed to persecution
I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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Wo! to me that I sojourned in Mesech; I dwelt with the tents of Ke dar. My soul dwelt much upon it with Him hating peace. I peace: and when I shall speak, they for war.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Send forth thy light and thy truth; they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mountain and to thy tents.
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To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten.
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Pilgrims and strangers » All saints are
Peter, sent of Jesus Christ, to the chosen strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Typified
And also have I set my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, which they sojourned upon it
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And so shall ye eat it, your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand: and ye ate it in hasty flight; a passing over to Jehovah.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Shine as lights in the world
That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have a heavenly conversation
For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not mindful of this world
And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Invite others to go with them
And Moses will say to Hobab, son of Raguel the Midianite, faher-in-law of Moses, We are removing to the place which Jehovah said, I will give it to you: come thou with us, and we did good to thee; for Jehovah spake good concerning Israel.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly country
And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he 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 about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Keep the promises in view
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly city
For he awaited a city having foundations, whose artificer and maker is God.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Hate worldly fellowship
Wo! to me that I sojourned in Mesech; I dwelt with the tents of Ke dar. My soul dwelt much upon it with Him hating peace.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Forsake all for Christ
Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Die in faith
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » Apostles
Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?
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Pilgrims and strangers » God is not ashamed to be called their God
And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should not be over anxious about worldly things
For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Rejoice in the statutes of God
Thy laws were musics to me in the house of my sojourning.
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pass their sojourning in fear
And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not at home in this world
By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt 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 dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:
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Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » jacob
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
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Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » David
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.
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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, Foxes have dens, and fowls of heaven encampments; but the Son of man has not where he might lay down the head.
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