1 Chronicles 29:15

Revised Version 1885

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

Genesis 21:34

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

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace 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 mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.

Genesis 36:7

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

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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 an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.

Job 14:10

But man dieth, and wasteth away: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Job 14:2

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Job 8:9

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

Psalm 119:19

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

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 39:13

O spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

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

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

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

1 Peter 2:11

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