Genesis 21:34

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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.

He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

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.

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

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

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.

“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.”

Isaac lived in Gerar.

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.”

(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.

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

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

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.”

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.

while we don’t look 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.

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.

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

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

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

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

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

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

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

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,

Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.

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

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

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

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

For 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.

“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.

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.

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.

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