17 Bible Verses about Saints, As Pilgrims

And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have dens; and the birds of the heaven lodging-places; but the Son of Man hath not where to recline His head."

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

These all died according to faith, not having obtained the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having greeted them, and having confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

Then Peter, answering, said to Him, "Behold, we left all, and followed Thee; what, then, shall we have?"

But now they long for a better country, that is, a heavenly one; wherefore, God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for He prepared for them a city.

for he was waiting for the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

And, if ye call on Him as Father, Who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to each one's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear;

For our citizenship is in Heaven, whence also we are waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

And, if, indeed, they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

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

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;

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

Sell what ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses that grow not old, a treasure unfailing in Heaven, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts;

If, therefore, ye were raised up with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Keep thinking of the things above, not of the things on the earth,

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

For we know that, if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For verily, in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from Heaven; if, indeed, being also clothed, we will not be found naked.read more.
For, indeed, we who are in the tabernacle groan, being weighed down; not that we wish to be unclothed, but be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now He Who wrought us for this very thing is God, Who gave to us the earnest of the Spirit. Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith and not by sight); we are of good courage, I say, and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.