Pilgrims

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

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

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.

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

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

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

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 →

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

If any man come to me, and hate not his 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 a light unto my path.

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

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

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

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

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

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

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

(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

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

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

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

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

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

And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

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

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

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

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

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

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

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

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

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

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, — read the full passage →

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

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

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.

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. — read the full passage →

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

The same was in the beginning with God.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.