1 Chronicles 29:15

A Conservative Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Cross References

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Leviticus 25:23

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

James 4:14

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth. Hide not thy commandments from me.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 28:4

and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee, that thou may inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.

Genesis 36:7

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojourning could not bear them because of their cattle.

1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

1 Chronicles 29:16

O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name comes of thy hand, and is all thine own.

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

Job 8:9

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

Psalm 39:13

O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.