1 Peter 2:11

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Summary

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

As

1 Peter 1:1

Hebrews 11:13

Abstain

War

James 4:1

Bible References

As

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

Abstain

that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be not oppressed with revelling and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you suddenly;

but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy;

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.

But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

War

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?