Pilgrims and Strangers
40 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
35 sections
- Abraham
- All Saints Are
- As Saints They are Actuated by Faith
- As Saints They are Exposed to Persecution
- As Saints They are not at Home in This World
- As Saints They are not Mindful of This World
- As Saints They are Strengthened by God
- As Saints They: Die in Faith
- As Saints They: Forsake all for Christ
- As Saints They: Hate Worldly Fellowship
- As Saints They: Have a Heavenly Conversation
- As Saints They: Have the Example of Christ
- As Saints They: Have Their Faces Toward Zion
- As Saints They: Invite Others to Go with Them
- As Saints They: Keep the Promised in View
- As Saints They: Long for Their Pilgrimage to End
- As Saints They: Look for a Heavenly City
- As Saints They: Look for a Heavenly Country
- As Saints They: Pass Their Sojourning in Fear
- As Saints They: Pray for Direction
- As Saints They: Rejoice in the Statutes of God
- As Saints They: Shine As Lights in the World
- As Saints They: should Abstain from Fleshly Lusts
- As Saints They: should Have Their Treasure in Heaven
- As Saints They: should not be Over Anxious About Worldly Things
- As Saints They: The World is not Worthy of
- David
- Described
- God is not Ashamed to be Called Their God
- Jacob
- Saints are Called to Be
- Saints Confess Themselves
- Saints of Old
- The Apostles
- Typified: Israel
Abraham
- Genesis 23:4 “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Acts 7:4–5 So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living. …
All Saints Are
- Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- 1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen
As Saints They are Actuated by Faith
- Hebrews 11:9 By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
As Saints They are Exposed to Persecution
- Psalm 120:5–7 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar! …
- John 17:14 I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
As Saints They are not at Home in This World
- Hebrews 11:9 By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
As Saints They are not Mindful of This World
- Hebrews 11:15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
As Saints They are Strengthened by God
- Deuteronomy 33:25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
- Psalm 84:6–7 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools. …
As Saints They: Die in Faith
- Hebrews 11:13 All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
As Saints They: Forsake all for Christ
- Matthew 19:27 “Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”
As Saints They: Hate Worldly Fellowship
- Psalm 120:5–6 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar! …
As Saints They: Have a Heavenly Conversation
- Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
As Saints They: Have the Example of Christ
- Luke 9:58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
As Saints They: Have Their Faces Toward Zion
- Jeremiah 50:5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
As Saints They: Invite Others to Go with Them
- Numbers 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised …
As Saints They: Keep the Promised in View
- Hebrews 11:13 All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
As Saints They: Long for Their Pilgrimage to End
- Psalm 55:6 I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1–8 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. …
As Saints They: Look for a Heavenly City
- Hebrews 11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
As Saints They: Look for a Heavenly Country
- Hebrews 11:16 Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
As Saints They: Pass Their Sojourning in Fear
- 1 Peter 1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
As Saints They: Pray for Direction
- Psalm 43:3 Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.
- Jeremiah 50:5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
As Saints They: Rejoice in the Statutes of God
- Psalm 119:54 Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
As Saints They: Shine As Lights in the World
- Philippians 2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
As Saints They: should Abstain from Fleshly Lusts
- 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
As Saints They: should Have Their Treasure in Heaven
- Matthew 6:19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- Luke 12:33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- Colossians 3:1–2 Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. …
As Saints They: should not be Over Anxious About Worldly Things
- Matthew 6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
As Saints They: The World is not Worthy of
- Hebrews 11:38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
David
- Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Described
- John 17:16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
God is not Ashamed to be Called Their God
- Hebrews 11:16 Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
Jacob
- Genesis 47:9 “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
Saints are Called to Be
- Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Acts 7:3 and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
- Luke 14:26–27 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be My disciple. …
- Luke 14:33 In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
Saints Confess Themselves
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Psalm 119:19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
- Hebrews 11:13 All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Saints of Old
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Hebrews 11:13 All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
- Hebrews 11:38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
The Apostles
- Matthew 19:27 “Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”
Typified: Israel
- Exodus 6:4 I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
- Exodus 12:11 This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.