17 Bible Verses about Being A Pilgrim

All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.

Then Peter spoke and said to him, "Here we have left all we had and followed you. What are we to have?"

But, as it is, their aspirations are for a better, a heavenly country! That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city to receive them.

But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.

For he was looking forward to that city with the sure foundations, designed and built by God.

And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here,

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

Jesus shed tears.

about uprightness, as shown by my going away to the Father, where you can no longer see me;

As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright,

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

For if you forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will forgive you too. But if you do not forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will not forgive you for your offenses.