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.

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.

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.

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.”

¹⁷ And if you ^(A)call on him as Father who ^(B)judges ^(C)impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves ^(D)with fear throughout the time of your exile,

^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]