Bible Verses About Self-Denial: Becomes strangers and pilgrims

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.

For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

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

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;