Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

“Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.