Verse 13

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 23:4 : 4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
  • 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.
  • John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
  • Heb 11:39 : 39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
  • Gen 49:18 : 18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
  • 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."
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 27:2-4 : 2 He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death. 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
  • Gen 49:33 : 33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 50:24 : 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
  • Num 24:17 : 17 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.
  • 1 Chr 29:14-15 : 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. 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 remaining.
  • Job 19:25 : 25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
  • Matt 13:17 : 17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
  • John 12:41 : 41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
  • Rom 4:21 : 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
  • Rom 8:24 : 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
  • Eph 2:19 : 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
  • 1 Pet 1:10-12 : 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them. 12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
  • Gen 49:28 : 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.