1 Chronicles 29:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.”
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“For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for sojourners we <FI>are<Fi> before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow <FI>are<Fi> our days on the land, and there is none abiding.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Chronicles 29:15 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 21:34And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
- Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
- Job 8:9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
- Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalms 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
- Hebrews 11:13All 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.
- James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- 1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
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