24 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim
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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
For there are some eunuchs, who were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, who were made eunuchs of men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces toward it, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed you; what shall we have therefore?
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.
For our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear:
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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.
That you might walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.