Verse 15

For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The lande shall not be solde to waste: for the lande is myne, & ye be but staungers and soiourners with me.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a straunger vpon earth: hyde not thy commaundementes from me.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The same voyce spake: Nowe crye. And the prophete aunswered, What shall I crye? That all fleshe is grasse, and that all the goodlinesse therof is as the floure of the fielde. 7 The grasse is withered, the floure falleth away, for the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them: of a trueth the people are grasse. 8 The grasse withereth, and the floure fadeth away: yet the worde of our God endureth for euer.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all dyed according to fayth, not hauing receaued the promises, but seing them a farre of, and beleuyng, and salutyng, and confessyng that they were straungers and pilgrimes on the earth. 14 For they that saye suche thynges, declare that they seke a countrey. 15 Also yf they had ben myndfull of that countrey from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned: 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 And yet can not ye tel what shall happen on the morowe. For what thyng is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that appeareth for a litle tyme, and then he vanisheth away.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearely beloued, I beseche you as straugers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lustes, whiche fight agaynst the soule:
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Iacob sayd vnto Pharao, The dayes of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirtie yeres: Fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life ben, and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of ye lyfe of my fathers, in the dayes of theyr pilgrimage.
  • Ps 90:9 : 9 For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde.