Pilgrims

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:

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.

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:

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 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:

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 →

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 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.

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 →

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 →

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.

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.

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 →

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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;

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — 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.

And working together with him we entreat 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 the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

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?

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 →

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,

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 →

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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, 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.

(although 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 that were before you.

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

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

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

who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw.

For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, — read the full passage →

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

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

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

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

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

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being 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, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.

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

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

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

the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs 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.

Yea, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his ways.

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