Hebrews 11:13

WEB

¹³These 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.

KJV

¹³These 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.

BSB

¹³All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

FBV

¹³They all died still trusting in God. Though they didn't receive the things God promised, they were still looking for them as it were from a distance and welcomed them, acknowledging that on this earth they were foreigners, people just passing through.

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Extra References

Genesis 23:4

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.”

Psalms 39:12

¹²“Hear my prayer, LORD, 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.

Hebrews 11:27

²⁷By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Hebrews 11:39

³⁹These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

1 Peter 2:11

¹¹Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

Romans 8:24

²⁴For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

John 8:56

⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

1 Chronicles 29:14-15

¹⁴But 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 we have given you of your own. ¹⁵For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Ephesians 2:19

¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

Genesis 25:8

⁸Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.