Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.

And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.

And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel.

His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.

For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.

Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?

Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

¶ I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

¶ Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten.

Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.

Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have?

Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.