Bible Verses About Self-Denial: Becomes strangers and pilgrims

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them , and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

Beloved, I call upon you , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,