Bible Verses About Self-Denial: Becomes strangers and pilgrims

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.

For people who speak this way make it clear that they are looking for a fatherland.

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

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you;