Thematic Bible: Pilgrims and strangers


Thematic Bible




Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. Verse ConceptsForeignersBeing A PilgrimHope, Results Of Its AbsenceLife, HumanPhysical LifePessimismPassing ThroughShadowsYear Of JubileeLife, Brevity OfPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfImmigrantsAliens

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Verse ConceptsPilgrimsReckoned As ForeignersGod's Things Concealed



If any man cometh to me, and hateth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

And said to him, Depart from thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. Verse ConceptsAbrahamPilgrimsSeparating From Relativesland

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimCavesDensEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesWanderersTemporary Stay In The WildernessCaves As Places Of RefugeHoles In The GroundWorthwandering


I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPilgrims, Examples OfUnseenReckoned As ForeignersThe Cave Of Machpelah

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. Verse ConceptsForeignersBeing A PilgrimHope, Results Of Its AbsenceLife, HumanPhysical LifePessimismPassing ThroughShadowsYear Of JubileeLife, Brevity OfPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfImmigrantsAliens

Then he came from the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran. And from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell. And he gave him no inheritance in it, no not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when as yet he had no child.


If ye then be raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.


And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away, and be at rest. Verse ConceptsFliesdovesWingsSaints, As PilgrimsBirds, Figurative UseWings Of BirdsThose FlyingRestflyingculturesoaring

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. read more.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not because we would be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up in life. Now he that hath wrought us for this same thing is God, who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing 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 confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.


Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.


Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Verse ConceptsenlightenmentGuidance, Receiving God'sSaints, As PilgrimsGod Giving LightGod's Truth

They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces towards it, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimCovenant, the newSaints, As PilgrimsThe Eternal CovenantPeople Going AstrayAsking Particular QuestionsUnited With GodDirection

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

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers. Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftSojourningGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsAlienscovenant

And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand: and ye shall eat it in haste; it is the LORD'S passover. Verse ConceptsPassover lambAtonement, Types OfNew Year, TheAdventureSandalsStaffHasteShoesClothing OneselfHasty ActionPreparing To TravelWalking With A Staff



And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came, they might have had opportunity to return. Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofSaints, As PilgrimsRight Time For PeopleReturning to their landOpportunitymindfulness

And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses's father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it to you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel. Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtSaints, As PilgrimsFathers In LawsGod Doing GoodBrothers in law

They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces towards it, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimCovenant, the newSaints, As PilgrimsThe Eternal CovenantPeople Going AstrayAsking Particular QuestionsUnited With GodDirection


(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimCavesDensEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesWanderersTemporary Stay In The WildernessCaves As Places Of RefugeHoles In The GroundWorthwandering



Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

Then answered Peter, and said to him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee? what shall we have therefore? Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPeter, The DiscipleSelf DenialSaints, As PilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfNever Giving Upfollowing


Then answered Peter, and said to him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee? what shall we have therefore? Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPeter, The DiscipleSelf DenialSaints, As PilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfNever Giving Upfollowing




Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. Verse ConceptsSongsSaints, As PilgrimsMetaphorical Housesstatues


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

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, nor have they attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation