Hebrews 11:13

Tree of Life Version

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

He lived as an outsider in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Genesis 23:4

“I am an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”

Genesis 25:8

So Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, old and satisfied. Then he was gathered to his peoples.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die. But God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 49:10

The scepter will not pass from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs will come. To him will be the obedience of the peoples.

Genesis 49:18

For your salvation I wait, Adonai!

Genesis 49:28

These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father spoke to them. He blessed them, each one he blessed with a suitable blessing.

Genesis 49:33

When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, then breathed his last and was gathered to his peoples.

Genesis 50:24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I’m about to die. But God will surely take notice of you and will bring you up from this land to the land that He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Job 19:25

“Yet I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end, He will stand on earth.

Psalm 119:19

I am a temporary dweller on earth— do not hide Your mitzvot from me.

Psalm 39:12

With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah

Exodus 2:22

She gave birth to a son and he named him Gershom, saying, “I have been an outsider in a foreign land.”

Leviticus 25:23

“Moreover, the land is not to be sold ­permanently, because the land is Mine. For you are sojourners with Me.

Numbers 10:30

But he said to him, “I will not go, because I would rather go to my own country and to my own people.”

Numbers 24:17

‘I see him, yet not at this moment. I behold him, yet not in this location. For a star will come from Jacob, a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of all the sons of Seth.

Matthew 13:17

Amen, I tell you, many a prophet and tzaddik longed to see what you are seeing and did not see, and to hear what you are hearing and did not hear.”

John 12:41

Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day; he saw it and was thrilled.”

Romans 4:21

He was fully convinced that what God has promised, He also is able to do.

Romans 8:24

For in hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

2 Corinthians 4:18

as we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.

Hebrews 11:14

For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

Hebrews 11:17

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had received the promises was offering up his one and only son—

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger—for he persevered as if seeing the One who is invisible.

Hebrews 11:39

And all these, though commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised—

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua, To the sojourners of the Diaspora in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia—chosen

1 Peter 1:17

If you call on Him as Father—the One who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds—then live out the time of sojourning in reverent fear.

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.

1 John 3:19

By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and set our heart at rest before Him