1 Chronicles 29:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For we are foreigners and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors.  Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Cross References

Leviticus 25:23

‘The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on my land.  ,

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

Job 14:2

He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?  Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘My pilgrimage  has lasted for 130 years. My years have been few and hard,  and they have not reached the years of my ancestors during their pilgrimages.’

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles  to abstain  from sinful  desires that wage war against the soul.

Genesis 23:4

‘I am a foreigner residing among you.  Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.’  ,

Genesis 28:4

May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham  so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.’

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too many for them to live together,  and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.

1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your own hand.

1 Chronicles 29:16

Lord our God, all this wealth that we’ve provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand; everything belongs to you.

Job 14:10

But a person dies and fades away; he breathes his last #– #where is he?

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Job 8:9

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.