Bible Verses About Being a Pilgrim
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being a pilgrim, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 272 votes, led by 1 Peter 2:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being a Pilgrim
1 Peter 2:1152 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Philippians 3:2042 votes
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 13:1428 votes
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Genesis 12:1-2021 votes
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
John 18:3618 votes
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
2 Corinthians 5:1-2118 votes
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Acts 14:2217 votes
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Genesis 47:916 votes
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
1 John 2:15-1715 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Luke 17:20-2112 votes
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Hebrews 11:1-4012 votes
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
John 3:16-1711 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Genesis 1:1-3110 votes
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
What does the Bible say about being a pilgrim?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 2:11 on the subject of being a pilgrim. Across 272 votes, 13 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Philippians 3:20, Hebrews 13:14, Genesis 12:1-20. This page lists all 13 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.