24 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim
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All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.
Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.
Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
because some men are celibate from birth, while some are celibate because they have been made that way by others. Still others are celibate because they have made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom from heaven. Let anyone accept this who can."
By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who also inherited the same promise,
They'll ask the way to Zion, turning their faces in that direction. They'll come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that won't be forgotten.
"Look!" Peter replied. "We have left everything and followed you. So what will we get?"
Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
Our citizenship, however, is in heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.
For by such grace you have been saved through faith. This does not come from you; it is the gift of God and not the result of actions, to put a stop to all boasting.
For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.
because he was waiting for the city with permanent foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
If you call "Father" the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land.
The world wasn't worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and from caves to holes in the ground.
"I am an alien and an outsider among you. Give me a cemetery among you where I can bury my dead away from my presence."
so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God.
Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.
of righteousness, because I'm going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
"I am the LORD. You are not to have sexual relations with a male as you would with a woman. It's detestable."
I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive people their offenses, your Father will not forgive your offenses."
