24 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim
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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.
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.
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;
For there are eunuchs, who were born so from the mother's belly: and there are eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of the heavens. He being able to receive, let him receive.
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:
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.
Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?
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.
For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: Not of works, lest any one should boast.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
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:
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.
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.
For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Straiten to a youth upon the mouth of his way, also when he shall grow old he will not depart from it.
And with a male thou shalt not lie on a woman's bed: it is abomination.
And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you. But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.
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- Pilgrim (5 instances)