The biblical identity of believers as temporary residents on earth. Hebrews 11:13: These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Peter applies the same vocabulary to ordinary Christians: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul (1 Pet 2:11). The Greek parepidemos (sojourner, resident alien) and paroikos (stranger) capture both halves: present in the place but not finally belonging to it, with a better country awaiting (Heb 11:16). The stranger-pilgrim identity orders the Christian's engagement with the world: invested but not enmeshed, working but not weighted down, present but on the way to somewhere truer.