1 Peter 2:11

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“Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.”

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“Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
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“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Peter 2:11 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 21:34And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
  2. Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
  3. Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
  4. Leviticus 15:18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
  5. Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
  6. 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  7. Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
  8. Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  9. Psalms 119:54Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
  10. Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
  11. Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
  12. Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
  13. Romans 7:23But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
  14. Romans 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  15. Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
  16. Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
  17. 2 Corinthians 5:20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
  18. 2 Corinthians 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
  19. 2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  20. Galatians 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  21. Galatians 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  22. Ephesians 4:1As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
  23. 1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
  24. 2 Timothy 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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