Genesis 23:4
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4 (A)“I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. (B)Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
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Genesis 47:9
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9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, (A)“The days of the years of my [a]pilgrimage are (B)one hundred and thirty years; (C)few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (D)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
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- Genesis 47:9 Lit. sojourning
1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 For (A)we are [a]aliens and [b]pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
(B)Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.
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- 1 Chronicles 29:15 sojourners, temporary residents
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 transients, temporary residents in an even more temporary sense
Psalm 39:12
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12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, (A)as all my fathers were.
Ephesians 2:19
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Christ Our Cornerstone
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
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1 Peter 1:17
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17 And if you call on the Father, who (A)without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your [a]stay here in fear;
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- 1 Peter 1:17 sojourning, dwelling as resident aliens
1 Peter 2:11
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Living Before the World
11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts (A)which war against the soul,
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