And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

Matthew 18:8

And if thy hand or thy foot causes thee to stumble, cut them off and cast from thee. It is good for thee to enter into life crippled or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

Verse Concepts

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Error » Definition of » To be forsaken

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Ephesians 4:22

for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

Colossians 2:11

In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.

Verse Concepts

Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Verse Concepts

Job 11:14

if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

Verse Concepts

Example » Good

Hebrews 13:7

Remember those who lead you, men who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, carefully observing the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith--

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no man disparage thy youth, but become an example of the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 5:3

nor as domineering over the lots, but becoming examples of the flock.

Verse Concepts

Titus 2:7-8

Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility, sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Nehemiah 5:8-19

And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word. Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. read more.
Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them, so will we do, even as thou say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise. Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised LORD. And th Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bre But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God. Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither did we buy any land. And all my servants were gathered there to the work. Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us. Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this I did not demand the bread of the governor, because the bon Remember to me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Psalm 101:2

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will thou come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Verse Concepts

1 Thessalonians 1:6-8

And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of Holy Spirit, in order for you to become examples to all those who believe, in Macedonia and in Achaia. For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

James 5:10-11

Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of Lord. Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.

1 Peter 2:11-25

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works. Therefore because of the Lord, ye should submit to every human establishment, whether to a king as being supreme, read more.
or to governors as being sent by him for vengeance of evil-doers and praise of well-doers. Because this way is the will of God, doing good to muzzle the ignorance of the foolish men. As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God. Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king. Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward. For this is graciousness, if, because of consciousness of God, any man endures sorrows, suffering wrongfully. For what kind of credit is it, if, sinning and being beaten, ye will endure? But if, doing good and suffering, ye will endure, this is graciousness with God. For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps. Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously. Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed. For ye were like sheep going astray, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

1 Peter 3:5-6

For this way formerly also, the holy women, trusting in God, adorned themselves, being subordinate to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became, doing good, and not being afraid of anything fearful.

Flesh » Abstaining from the lusts of the flesh

Romans 13:14

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Flesh » Fleshly lusts

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

1 John 2:16

Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

The flesh » Mortify the

Romans 8:13

For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.

Romans 13:14

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Romans 6:6

Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.

Galatians 5:24

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

Verse Concepts

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh.

Verse Concepts

Matthew 5:29

And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

Matthew 18:8

Verse Concepts

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Life » Lessons of » Pilgrimage, a

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no enduring city, but we seek that which is coming.

Verse Concepts

Exodus 6:4

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojourning, in which they sojourned.

Verse Concepts

Hebrews 11:13

All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Verse Concepts

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Verse Concepts

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Verse Concepts

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth. Hide not thy commandments from me.

Verse Concepts

Lust » What lust does

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

James 1:15

Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

Lust » Abstaining from lusts

Romans 13:14

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Righteous » Compared with » Strangers and pilgrims

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

compared to Saints » Strangers and pilgrims

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Self-denial » Becomes strangers and pilgrims

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Hebrews 11:13-15

All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth. For those who say such things show that they are seeking a fatherland. And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return.

Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Abstaining from fleshly lusts

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Sin » Excuses offered for » To be forsaken

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Ephesians 4:22

for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

Colossians 2:11

In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.

Verse Concepts

Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Verse Concepts

Job 11:14

if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

Verse Concepts

Spirit/souls » What wars against the soul

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Transgression » Sin, definition of » To be forsaken

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Ephesians 4:22

for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

Colossians 2:11

In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.

Verse Concepts

Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Verse Concepts

Job 11:14

if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

Verse Concepts

War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh

2 Corinthians 12:7

And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted.

Verse Concepts

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

Verse Concepts

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

1 Corinthians 9:25-27

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable. I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air. But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

War/weapons » What wars against the spirit

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Galatians 5:16-18

But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do. But if ye are led by Spirit ye are not under law.

Warfare of saints » Is against » The flesh

2 Corinthians 12:7

Verse Concepts

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

Verse Concepts

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.