22 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Exile and Wandering

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Chr 29:14 — 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.
• 1Chr 29:15 — 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.
• 1John 3:19 — And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
• 1Pet 1:1 — Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
• 1Pet 1:10 — Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
• 1Pet 1:10 — Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
• 1Pet 1:17 — 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:
• 1Pet 1:17 — 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:
• 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 2Cor 1:20 — For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
• 2Cor 4:18 — 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.
• 2Cor 5:6 — Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
• 2Tim 1:5 — 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.
• Col 3:1 — If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
• Deut 32:52 — Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
• Eph 2:19 — Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
• Eph 2:19 — Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
• Exod 2:22 — And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
• Exod 18:3 — 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:
• Gen 12:7 — 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.
• Gen 23:4 — 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.
• Gen 23:4 — 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.
• Gen 25:8 — 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.
• Gen 26:3 — 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
• Gen 27:2 — And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
• Gen 47:9 — 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
• Gen 48:21 — And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
• Gen 49:10 — 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.
• Gen 49:18 — I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
• Gen 49:28 — 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.
• Gen 49:33 — 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.
• Gen 50:24 — 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.
• Heb 4:8 — For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
• Heb 9:15 — 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 th
• Heb 11:1 — Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
• Heb 11:27 — By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
• Heb 11:27 — By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
• Heb 11:39 — And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
• Heb 11:39 — And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: