1 Peter 2:11

A Call To Good Works

¹⁰ of darkness into his marvellous light: you, who formerly were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, ¹¹ but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your ¹² souls. Let your behaviour among the Gentiles be virtuous, that instead of inveighing against you as vicious, they may observe your honest behaviour,

Abstain from

Desires of the Flesh

Of the Flesh

On Earth

Strangers and Pilgrims

Aliens And Strangers

Refrain From

James 4:1

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

Romans 8:13

for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

Galatians 5:24

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

Galatians 5:16-21

I say then, conduct yourselves by the spirit, and you will not then gratify the animal passions.

2 Timothy 2:22

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, without receiving what was promised, having only a distant view of what they eagerly expected, professing to live as strangers and pilgrims in the land.

1 Peter 1:17

and since you invoke him as your father, who without respect of persons judges every one according to his actions; while you are passing thro' this world, be fearful of offending him:

1 Peter 4:2

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

Luke 21:34

set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize.

Acts 15:20

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the flesh of strangled animals, and from fornication: you will do well to preserve your selves from these practices. farewel.

Romans 7:23

but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part.

Romans 13:13-14

let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.

2 Corinthians 5:20

we then are ambassadors for Christ, and 'tis God who makes you the offers by us: we pray you in the name of Christ, to make your peace with God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Invested then with such a commission, I beseech you let not the offers of divine favour be made to you in vain.

2 Corinthians 7:1

since then, we have these promises, my dear brethren, let us cleanse our selves from all impurity, whether of body or mind, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you:

1 Timothy 6:9-10

themselves to temptations and snares, and to many foolish noxious passions, which plunge men into ruin and perdition. for the love of money is the root of all evil:

1 Peter 1:1

PETER an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the foreigners dispers'd thro' Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, whom God the father has chosen in pursuance of his decree,