Hebrews 11:13

These patriarchs died still trusting God's promises, which they had only glimpsed from afar, confessing themselves strangers and pilgrims on earth. True faith holds God's word even when its fulfillment lies beyond this life.

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• Ps 39:12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
• Gen 23:4“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
• Heb 11:27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• John 8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”
• 1 Chr 29:14–15But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
• Rom 8:24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
• Heb 11:39These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,
• Eph 2:19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
• Gen 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
• Gen 27:2–4He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
• Rom 4:21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
• 1 Pet 1:17If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
• 1 Pet 1:10–12Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
• Gen 25:8Abraham gave up his spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
• Gen 49:18I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
• Matt 13:17For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
• 1 Jn 3:19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
• Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
• Gen 49:33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
• Ps 119:19I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
• Num 24:17I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.
• John 12:41Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
• Gen 48:21Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
• Gen 50:24Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
• Gen 49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

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