Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.

I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.

And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot. But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven.

Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.

For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us the pledge of the Spirit,

Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.

(For we walk by faith and not by sight.)

But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from the body and to be present with the Lord.

That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God.

All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.

But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.