Bible Verses about “pilgrims”
The Bible contains 28 verses about pilgrims across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.”
“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”
“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”
“Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.”
“Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
“Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.”
“For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”
“But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
“Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.”
“By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.”
“For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.”
“If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.”
“By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.”
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;”
“Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.”
“"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.”
“Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.”
“I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,”
“You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.”
“You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.”
“You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,”
“that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"”