1 Chronicles 29:15

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • Ps 39:12 : 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, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this 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?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrima are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrima.
  • Ps 90:9 : 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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    13Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

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    9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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    4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

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    20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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    14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

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    31That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

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    14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

    15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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    36Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

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    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

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    19When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

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    15Are we not counted of him stranrs? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

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    40That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

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    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

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    27But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.

    28Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.

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    29The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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    9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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    2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.