24 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim
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These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,
For there are eunuchs who were born as such from [their] mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves [eunuchs] for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept [this], let him accept [it]."
By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.
They will ask [the] way [to] Zion, [turning] their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh [by] {an everlasting covenant} [that] will not be forgotten.
Then Peter answered [and] said to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?"
But now they aspire to a better [land], that is, a heavenly [one]. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
For by grace you are saved through faith, and this [is] not from yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; [it is] not from works, so that no one can boast.
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
For he was expecting the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder [is] God.
And if you call on [him] [as] Father who judges impartially according to each one's work, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your temporary residence,
of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground.
"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.
so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.
and concerning righteousness, because I am going away to the Father and you will see me no more,
And you shall not lie with a male as lying {with} a woman; that [is] a detestable thing.
And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish {forever}, and no one will seize them out of my hand.
For if you forgive people their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive people, neither will your Father forgive your sins.
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- Pilgrim (5 instances)