Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

Then he came out of the land of the Kasdim, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah;

If then you were raised together with Messiah, seek the things that are above, where Messiah is, seated on the right hand of God.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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

If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

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

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.