Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers: Saints are called to be

Now Adonai said to Avram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid.

Whoever does not carry his own execution-stake and come after me cannot be my talmid.

“So every one of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has cannot be my talmid.

and said to him, ‘Leave your land and your family, and go into the land that I will show you.’