1 Chronicles 29:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁵ For we are foreigners and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors.  Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ 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 hope or expectation of remaining.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ To be sure, we are like all our ancestors, immigrants without permanent homes. Our days are like a shadow on the ground, and there’s no hope.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.

1 Chronicles 29:15 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Genesis 23:4

‘I am a foreigner residing among you.  Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.’  ,

Genesis 28:4

May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham  so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.’

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too many for them to live together,  and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘My pilgrimage  has lasted for 130 years. My years have been few and hard,  and they have not reached the years of my ancestors during their pilgrimages.’

1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your own hand.

1 Chronicles 29:16

Lord our God, all this wealth that we’ve provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand; everything belongs to you.

Job 14:10

But a person dies and fades away; he breathes his last #– #where is he?

Job 14:2

He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.

Job 8:9

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?  Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?

Leviticus 25:23

‘The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on my land.  ,

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles  to abstain  from sinful  desires that wage war against the soul.