1 Chronicles 29:15
29:15 For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors;
our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
Psalms 39:12
39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord!
Listen to my cry for help!
Do not ignore my sobbing!
For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land;
I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.
Psalms 119:19
119:19 I am like a foreigner in this land.
Do not hide your commands from me!
Psalms 119:54
119:54 Your statutes have been my songs
in the house where I live.
Psalms 119:2
119:2 How blessed are those who observe his rules,
and seek him with all their heart,
Colossians 1:6
1:6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel
is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing
among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
Hebrews 11:9-16
11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner
in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs
of the same promise.
11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations,
whose architect and builder is God.
11:11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old,
he received the ability to procreate,
because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.
11:12 So in fact children
were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead –
like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.
11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised,
but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners
on the earth.
11:14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
11:15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
11:16 But as it is,
they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 13:14
13:14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
Hebrews 13:1
Final Exhortations
13:1 Brotherly love must continue.
Hebrews 2:11
2:11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin,
and so
he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,