Genesis 47:9

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

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.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

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

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

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

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.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

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.

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

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

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.

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.

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

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

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.

The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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

“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.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

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.

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

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

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

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

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.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

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

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

“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.”

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

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

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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.

But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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.

Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon.

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

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

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,

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.