Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers: As Saints They: Long for Their Pilgrimage to End

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

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.

2 Corinthians 5:2

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

2 Corinthians 5:3

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2 Corinthians 5:5

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

2 Corinthians 5:7

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.