26 Bible Verses about Saints, As Pilgrims

Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

The bars of your gates will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.

As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

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.

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

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

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

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one's work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.

But our citizenship is in heaven -- and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar. For too long I have had to reside with those who hate peace.

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place about which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things for Israel."

How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar. For too long I have had to reside with those who hate peace. I am committed to peace, but when I speak, they want to make war.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out -- a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

I say, "I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens. For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.read more.
For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord -- for we live by faith, not by sight. Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.