Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

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.

“I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world — just as I myself do not belong to the world.

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

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

So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.

He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at the time he was childless.

We know that when the tent which houses us here on earth is torn down, we have a permanent building from God, a building not made by human hands, to house us in heaven.

For in this tent, our earthly body, we groan with desire to have around us the home from heaven that will be ours.

With this around us we will not be found naked.

Yes, while we are in this body, we groan with the sense of being oppressed: it is not so much that we want to take something off, but rather to put something on over it; so that what must die may be swallowed up by the Life.

Moreover, it is God who has prepared us for this very thing, and as a pledge he has given us his Spirit.

So we are always confident — we know that so long as we are at home in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord;

for we live by trust, not by what we see.

We are confident, then, and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and come to our home with the Lord.

so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the sky,

But we are citizens of heaven, and it is from there that we expect a Deliverer, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above, where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God.

Focus your minds on the things above, not on things here on earth.

By trusting, he lived as a temporary resident in the Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, who were to receive what was promised along with him.

For he was looking forward to the city with permanent foundations, of which the architect and builder is God.

All these people kept on trusting until they died, without receiving what had been promised. They had only seen it and welcomed it from a distance, while acknowledging that they were aliens and temporary residents on the earth.

Now if they were to keep recalling the one they left, they would have an opportunity to return;

but as it is, they aspire to a better fatherland, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

wandering about in deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground! The world was not worthy of them!