Pilgrims and Strangers

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• John 17:16 NT

  They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

• Genesis 12:1 OT

  Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

• Acts 7:3 NT

  and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

• Luke 14:26 NT

  “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 14:27 NT

  Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 14:33 NT

  So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

• Psalms 39:12 OT

  “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.

• 1 Peter 1:1 NT

  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,

• 1 Chronicles 29:15 OT

  For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

• Psalms 119:19 OT

  I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

• Hebrews 11:13 NT

  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.

• Luke 9:58 NT

  Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

• Deuteronomy 33:25 OT

  Your bars will be iron and bronze. As your days, so your strength will be.

• Psalms 84:6 OT

  Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

• Psalms 84:7 OT

  They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

• Hebrews 11:9 NT

  By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

• Jeremiah 50:5 OT

  They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

• Matthew 19:27 NT

  Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

• Hebrews 11:16 NT

  But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

• Hebrews 11:10 NT

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

• 1 Peter 1:17 NT

  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,

• Psalms 119:54 OT

  Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

• Psalms 43:3 OT

  Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

• Philippians 3:20 NT

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