Pilgrims and Strangers

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Psalms 120:5 OT

  Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

• Psalms 120:6 OT

  My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

• Hebrews 11:15 NT

  If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

• Philippians 2:15 NT

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• Numbers 10:29 OT

  Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning…

• Psalms 120:5-7 OT

  Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

• John 17:14 NT

  I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

• 1 Peter 2:11 NT

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

• Matthew 6:19 NT

  “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

• Luke 12:33 NT

  Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

• Colossians 3:1 NT

  If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

• Colossians 3:2 NT

  Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

• Matthew 6:25 NT

  Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

• Psalms 55:6 OT

  I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

• 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 NT

  For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from…

• Hebrews 11:38 NT

  of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

• Exodus 6:4 OT

  I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

• Exodus 12:11 OT

  This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

• Genesis 23:4 OT

  “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

• Acts 7:4 NT

  Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

• Acts 7:5 NT

  He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.

• Genesis 47:9 OT

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