26 Bible Verses about Saints, As Pilgrims
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And Jesus said to him, Foxes have dens, and fowls of heaven encampments; but the Son of man has not where he might lay down the head.
Passing through in the valley of Baca they will set it a fountain; also the early rain will cover the ponds.
By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:
To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten.
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?
And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.
And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:
Send forth thy light and thy truth; they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mountain and to thy tents.
For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Wo! to me that I sojourned in Mesech; I dwelt with the tents of Ke dar. My soul dwelt much upon it with Him hating peace.
And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned.
That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;
And Moses will say to Hobab, son of Raguel the Midianite, faher-in-law of Moses, We are removing to the place which Jehovah said, I will give it to you: come thou with us, and we did good to thee; for Jehovah spake good concerning Israel.
Wo! to me that I sojourned in Mesech; I dwelt with the tents of Ke dar. My soul dwelt much upon it with Him hating peace. I peace: and when I shall speak, they for war.
I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.
If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth.
For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?
And saying, Who will give me the wing-feather as a dove? I will fly away and settle down.
For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on: If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked.read more.
For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life. And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit. Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:) And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.
