Hebrews 11:13

Lighthouse Bible 2006

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

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 25:8

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

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 the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Genesis 48:21

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 49:10

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to him shall the gathering of the people be.

Genesis 49:18

I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.

Genesis 49:28

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

Genesis 49:33

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 50:24

And Joseph said to his brothers, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Job 19:25

For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Exodus 2:22

And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Numbers 10:30

And he said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.

Numbers 24:17

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall strike the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

Matthew 13:17

For truly I say to you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.

John 12:41

These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Romans 4:21

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Romans 8:24

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for it?

2 Corinthians 4:18

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Ephesians 2:19

Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Hebrews 11:14

For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Hebrews 11:17

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Hebrews 11:39

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise:

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on the Father, who without regard for status judges according to everyone’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I appeal to you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 John 3:19

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.