17 Bible Verses about Saints, As Pilgrims

And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have lodgingplaces; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

By faith he sojourned in the land of the promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

These all died in faith, not having received the promised blessings, but having seen them from afar, and greeted them, and having professed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

Then Peter answering said to him, Lo! we left all, and followed thee; what then shall we have?

but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he prepared for them a city.

for he was looking for the city which hath foundations, whose maker and builder is God.

And if ye call him Father who without respect of persons judgeth according to each ones work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear;

For the country of which we are citizens is heaven, whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they would have had opportunity to return;

that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Sell what ye have, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which wax not old, treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, nor moth destroyeth.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on things on the earth.

Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

For we know that, if our earthly tenthabitation be destroyed, we have a building provided by God, a house not made with hands, everlasting, in the heavens. For while in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven; since, indeed, when we have put off our present garment, we shall not be found naked.read more.
For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now he that hath prepared us for this very thing is God; who also gave to us the Spirit as the pledge. We have courage, therefore, always, and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight; but we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.