Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

And whosoeuer beareth not his crosse, and commeth after mee, can not bee my disciple.

So likewise, whosoeuer hee be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

I haue giuen them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

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

And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe thee.

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran. And after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell,

And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the bredth of a foote: yet he promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seede after him, when as yet hee had no childe.

For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.

For therefore we sighe, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heauen.

Because that if we be clothed, we shall not be found naked.

For in deede we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened, because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpon, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of life.

And he that hath created vs for this thing, is God, who also hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of the Spirit.

Therefore we are alway bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.

(For we walke by faith, and not by sight.)

Neuerthelesse, we are bolde, and loue rather to remoue out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

That ye may be blamelesse, and pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,

But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,

If yee then bee risen with Christ, seeke those thinges which are aboue, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.

Set your affections on things which are aboue, and not on things which are on the earth.

By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promise.

For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.

All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned.

But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.

Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.