Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

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.

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, God removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell:

and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

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 so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.