13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised;(A) they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,(B) admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.(C)

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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.

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39 These were all commended(A) for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,(B)

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39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

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27 By faith he left Egypt,(A) not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.

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27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

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56 Your father Abraham(A) rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it(B) and was glad.”

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56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

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12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;(A)
    do not be deaf(B) to my weeping.(C)
I dwell with you as a foreigner,(D)
    a stranger,(E) as all my ancestors were.(F)

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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.

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24 For in this hope we were saved.(A) But hope that is seen is no hope at all.(B) Who hopes for what they already have?

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24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

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“I am a foreigner and stranger(A) among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.(B)

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I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society

11 Dear friends,(A) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,(B) to abstain from sinful desires,(C) which wage war against your soul.(D)

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11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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17 Since you call on a Father(A) who judges each person’s work(B) impartially,(C) live out your time as foreigners(D) here in reverent fear.(E)

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17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

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19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers,(A) but fellow citizens(B) with God’s people and also members of his household,(C)

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19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

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10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke(A) of the grace that was to come to you,(B) searched intently and with the greatest care,(C) 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ(D) in them was pointing when he predicted(E) the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you,(F) when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you(G) by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.(H) Even angels long to look into these things.

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10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

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21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.(A)

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21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

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25 I know that my redeemer[a](A) lives,(B)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:25 Or vindicator
  2. Job 19:25 Or on my grave

25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

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