1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
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- Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
- Ps 39:12 : 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.
- Lev 25:23 : 23 "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
- Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
- Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
- Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
- Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
- Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
- Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own. 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
- 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
- Ps 90:9 : 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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19 When you were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and foreigners in it;
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15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
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2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.