Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee:

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.

And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah’s passover.

And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.

Thy bars shall be iron and brass; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.

I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.

Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.

I amforpeace: But when I speak, they are for war.

They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

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

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

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee; what then shall we have?

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

Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.