Thematic Bible: Pilgrims and strangers
Thematic Bible
Pilgrims and strangers » Saints confess themselves
These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Pilgrims and strangers » Saints are called to be
And Yahweh said to Abram, "Go out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you.
In the [same] way, therefore, every [one] of you who does not renounce all his own possessions {cannot be} my disciple.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and {follow} me {cannot be} my disciple.
and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.'
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified
of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground.
These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.
"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans [and] settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he caused him to move to this land in which you now live. And he did not give him an inheritance in it--not even a footstep--and he promised to give [it] to him for his possession, and to his descendants after him, {although he did not have} a child.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not [on] the things on earth.
Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
So I say, "{Oh, that} I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.
For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed, in this [house] we groan, [because we] desire to put on our dwelling from heaven, if indeed, even [after we] have taken [it] off, we will not be found naked. read more.
For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened {for this reason, that} we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who has prepared us for this very [thing] [is] God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit. Therefore, [although we are] always confident and know that [while we] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- for we live by faith, not by sight-- so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened {for this reason, that} we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who has prepared us for this very [thing] [is] God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit. Therefore, [although we are] always confident and know that [while we] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- for we live by faith, not by sight-- so we are confident and prefer 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 [are] iron and bronze, and as your days, [so is] your strength."
Passing through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers [it with] blessings as well. They go from strength to strength, [until each] appears before God in Zion.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are exposed to persecution
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.
Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, [that] I dwell among the tents of Kedar. Too long my soul has had its dwelling near [one who] hates peace. I [am for] peace, but when I speak, they [are] for war.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Send your light and your truth; they shall lead me. They shall bring me to {your holy mountain} and to your dwelling places.
They will ask [the] way [to] Zion, [turning] their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh [by] {an everlasting covenant} [that] will not be forgotten.
Pilgrims and strangers » All saints are
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are residing temporarily in the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
Pilgrims and strangers » Typified
And I not only established my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they dwelt as aliens,
And this is how you will eat it--[with] your waists fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It [is] Yahweh's Passover.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Shine as lights in the world
in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world,
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have a heavenly conversation
For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not mindful of this world
And if they remember that [land] from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Invite others to go with them
Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, "We [are] setting out to the place that Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you'; go with us, and we will {treat you well} because {Yahweh promised} good concerning Israel."
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
They will ask [the] way [to] Zion, [turning] their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh [by] {an everlasting covenant} [that] will not be forgotten.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly country
But now they aspire to a better [land], that is, a heavenly [one]. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » The world is not worthy of
of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Keep the promises in view
These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Look for a heavenly city
For he was expecting the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder [is] God.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Hate worldly fellowship
Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, [that] I dwell among the tents of Kedar. Too long my soul has had its dwelling near [one who] hates peace.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Forsake all for Christ
Then Peter answered [and] said to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?"
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Die in faith
These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » Apostles
Then Peter answered [and] said to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?"
Pilgrims and strangers » God is not ashamed to be called their God
But now they aspire to a better [land], that is, a heavenly [one]. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should not be over anxious about worldly things
"For this [reason] I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, and not for your body, what you will wear. Is your life not more than food and your body [more than] clothing?
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts
Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your 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 [him] [as] Father who judges impartially according to each one's work, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your temporary residence,
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are not at home in this world
By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Are actuated by faith
By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » jacob
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » David
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
Pilgrims and strangers » Described
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have the example of Christ
And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky [have] nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay [his] head."