“I am a foreign resident among you.(A) Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:4 Lit dead from before me

“I am a foreigner and stranger(A) among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.(B)

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12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.(A)
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.(B)

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12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;(A)
    do not be deaf(B) to my weeping.(C)
I dwell with you as a foreigner,(D)
    a stranger,(E) as all my ancestors were.(F)

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By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.(A)

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By faith he made his home in the promised land(A) like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents,(B) as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.(C)

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13 These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance,(A) greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.(B)

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13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised;(A) they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,(B) admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.(C)

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A Call to Good Works

11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents(A) to abstain(B) from fleshly(C) desires that war against you.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:11 Or against the soul

Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society

11 Dear friends,(A) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,(B) to abstain from sinful desires,(C) which wage war against your soul.(D)

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