19 I am (A)a sojourner on the earth;
    (B)hide not your commandments from me!

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19 I am a stranger on earth;(A)
    do not hide your commands from me.

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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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect

15 We are foreigners and strangers(A) in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow,(B) without hope.

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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.

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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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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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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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10 (A)With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not (B)wander from your commandments!

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10 I seek you with all my heart;(A)
    do not let me stray from your commands.(B)

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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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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) 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.(D) 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.(E) Therefore God is not ashamed(F) to be called their God,(G) for he has prepared a city(H) for them.

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So we are always of good courage. We know that (A)while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

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Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

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45 Then (A)he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

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45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

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17 O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
    and (A)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
(B)Return for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes of your heritage.

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17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander(A) from your ways
    and harden our hearts(B) so we do not revere(C) you?
Return(D) for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes that are your inheritance.(E)

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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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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.(A) My years have been few and difficult,(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.(C)

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45 (A)But they did not understand this saying, and (B)it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

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45 But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it,(A) and they were afraid to ask him about it.

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17 because God has made her forget wisdom
    and (A)given her no share in understanding.

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17 for God did not endow her with wisdom
    or give her a share of good sense.(A)

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