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)

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)

²³ “‘The land^(A) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine^(B) and you reside in my land as foreigners^(C) and strangers.

⁹ 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)”

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)

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.