For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: {conversation...: or, we live or conduct ourselves as citizens of heaven, or, for obtaining heaven}

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of {them}, and embraced {them}, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. {in faith: Gr. according to faith}

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this {will} I {be} confident.

In the fear of the LORD {is} strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}

We are confident, {I say}, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.

I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I {am} a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence {is} this wherein thou trustest?

For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

For to me to live {is} Christ, and to die {is} gain.

We are confident, {I say}, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, {there} ye may be also.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this {will} I {be} confident.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.

I {am} a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

And if Christ {be} in you, the body {is} dead because of sin; but the Spirit {is} life because of righteousness.

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. {labour: or, endeavour}

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning {here} in fear:

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.