24 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

“Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

They will ask about Zion,
turning their faces to this road.
They will come and join themselves to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Then Peter responded to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You. So what will there be for us?”

But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

but our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— not from works, so that no one can boast.

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

And if you address as Father the One who judges impartially based on each one’s work, you are to conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your temporary residence.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

Teach a youth about the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Jesus wept.

about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

as it is written:

There is no one righteous, not even one.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

“For if you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. But if you don’t forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.