¹⁵ For we are aliens and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors.^(A) Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.^(B)

¹³ These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance,^(A) greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.^(B)

A Call to Good Works

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles^(A) to abstain^(B) from sinful^(C) desires that wage war against the soul.^(D)