Pilgrims

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

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

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.

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

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

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

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

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

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

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

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

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

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, Jesus Christ our Lord,

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, — read the full passage →

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just 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 left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

As they still went on, and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

through whom we received grace and apostleship, for 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 who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is 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.

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.