Thematic Bible
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Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.
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We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven: And herefore sigh we, desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven: so yet if it happen that we be found clothed, and not naked. read more.
For as long as we are in this tabernacle, we sigh and are grieved: for we would not be unclothed: but would be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. He that hath ordained us for this thing, is God: which very same hath given unto us the earnest of the spirit. Therefore, we are always of good cheer, and know well that as long as we are at home in the body we are absent from God. For we walk in faith and see not. Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
For as long as we are in this tabernacle, we sigh and are grieved: for we would not be unclothed: but would be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. He that hath ordained us for this thing, is God: which very same hath given unto us the earnest of the spirit. Therefore, we are always of good cheer, and know well that as long as we are at home in the body we are absent from God. For we walk in faith and see not. Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Rest, spiritual » Vainly sought in escape from trouble
And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.
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Spiritual » Rest » Vainly sought in escape from trouble
And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Verse Concepts