7 Bible Verses about Pilgrims, Examples Of

"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live. He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

Then Peter said to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?"