1 Chronicles 29:15

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

These 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.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.

Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

“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.”

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, 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.

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

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