Being A Pilgrim

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

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee: — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God cometh, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan. — read the full passage →

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts! — read the full passage →

And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth; — read the full passage →

And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues:

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

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. — read the full passage →

(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

And he said, A certain man had two sons: — read the full passage →

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. — read the full passage →

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days. — read the full passage →

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee:

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; even Jesus Christ our Lord,

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

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

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man’s person)—they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me:

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, — read the full passage →

And he must needs pass through Samaria.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.

And he spake unto them this parable, saying,

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: