Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers: Are exposed to persecution

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.