1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 (A)For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are (B)like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[a]
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- 1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect
Job 14:2
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Psalm 102:11
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Leviticus 25:23
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Redemption of Property
23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for (A)the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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Psalm 90:9
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9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
Psalm 39:12
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12 (A)“Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am (B)a sojourner with you,
(C)a guest, like all my fathers.
James 4:14
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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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Isaiah 40:6-8
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The Word of God Stands Forever
6 A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
(A)All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty[b] is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
8 (B)The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
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- Isaiah 40:6 Revocalization based on Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Vulgate; Masoretic Text And someone says
- Isaiah 40:6 Or all its constancy
Ecclesiastes 6:12
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12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his (A)vain[a] life, which he passes like (B)a shadow? For who can tell man what will be (C)after him under the sun?
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- Ecclesiastes 6:12 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
Psalm 144:4
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1 Peter 2:11
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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.
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Hebrews 11:13-16
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13 These all died in faith, (A)not having received the things promised, but (B)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and (C)having acknowledged that they were (D)strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, (E)they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed (F)to be called their God, for (G)he has prepared for them a city.
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Psalm 119:19
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Genesis 47:9
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9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my (A)sojourning are 130 years. (B)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (C)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their (D)sojourning.”
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