1 Chronicles 29:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham resided as an alien many days in the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 28:4

May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, land that God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they were staying could not support them because of their livestock.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

1 Chronicles 29:14

“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to make this freewill offering? 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 mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

Job 14:2

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 119:19

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.

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 your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 90:9

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

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

James 4:14

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

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.