1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
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1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:12
Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.
1 Chronicles 29:13
So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name.
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
1 Chronicles 29:16
O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.
1 Chronicles 29:17
And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
1 Chronicles 29:18
O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;
1 Chronicles 29:19
And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.
Psalms 110:3
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
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Genesis 23:4
I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
Psalms 105:12
When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
Psalms 119:54
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Genesis 17:8
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
Psalms 39:13
Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
Hebrews 11:15
And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.
Hebrews 11:16
But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
Hebrews 13:14
For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.
2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)
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Psalms 90:9
For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Job 9:25
My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
Psalms 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
Psalms 89:47
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
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