I {am} a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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}.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw {it}, and was glad.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

But who {am} I, and what {is} my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things {come} of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. {be able: Heb. retain, or, obtain strength} {of thine...: Heb. of thine hand}

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

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:

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace {that should come} unto you:

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.

For I know {that} my redeemer liveth, and {that} he shall stand at the latter {day} upon the earth:

I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full {of years}; and was gathered to his people.

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous {men} have desired to see {those things} which ye see, and have not seen {them}; and to hear {those things} which ye hear, and have not heard {them}.

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. {assure: Gr. persuade}

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

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him {shall} the gathering of the people {be}.

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. {smite...: or, smite through the princes of}

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

All these {are} the twelve tribes of Israel: and this {is it} that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. {substance: or, ground, or, confidence}

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen {are} temporal; but the things which are not seen {are} eternal.

Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw {it}, and was glad.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

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}.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: {are they} not in thy book?

Trust in the LORD, and do good; {so} shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. {verily: Heb. in truth, or, stableness}

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

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

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace {that should come} unto you:

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous {men} have desired to see {those things} which ye see, and have not seen {them}; and to hear {those things} which ye hear, and have not heard {them}.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen {them}; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard {them}.

For all the promises of God in him {are} yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

And she bare {him} a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. {Gershom: that is, A stranger here}

For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. {Jesus: that is, Joshua}

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

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}

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions {that were} under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

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:

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

Yet thou shalt see the land before {thee}; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

Therefore {we are} always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

I {am} a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

And her two sons; of which the name of the one {was} Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: {Gershom: that is A stranger there}

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. {that...: Heb. of far distances}

And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.

Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it. {few, even: Heb. men of number, etc}

And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not {so much as} to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when {as yet} he had no child.

And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. {assure: Gr. persuade}

And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

And this I say, {that} the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

Receiving the end of your faith, {even} the salvation of {your} souls.

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. {going...: Heb. in going and journeying}

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. {descent: or, pedigree}

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month {shall be} the feast of tabernacles {for} seven days unto the LORD.