1 Chronicles 29:15

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Leviticus 25:23

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

James 4:14

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 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 fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 28:4

May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.

1 Chronicles 29:14

“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

1 Chronicles 29:16

O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.

Job 14:10

But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

Genesis 21:34

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

Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”