1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

James 4:1

Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

Leviticus 25:23

"The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.

Romans 12:1

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.

Galatians 5:16-21

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

1 Peter 1:17

If you call "Father" the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land.

1 Peter 4:2

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

1 John 2:15-17

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

Genesis 23:4

"I am an alien and an outsider among you. Give me a cemetery among you where I can bury my dead away from my presence."

Genesis 47:9

"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.

Psalm 119:19

Since I am a stranger on the earth, do not hide your commands from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes are my songs, no matter where I make my home.

Luke 21:34

"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write to them to keep away from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from anything strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

to keep away from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will do well. Goodbye."

Romans 7:23

but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.

Romans 13:13-14

Let's behave decently, as people who live in the light of day. No wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, quarreling, or jealousy!

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore, we are the Messiah's representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah's behalf: "Be reconciled to God!"

2 Corinthians 6:1

Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to live in a way that is worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

1 Peter 1:1

From: Peter, an apostle of Jesus, the Messiah.

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1 Peter 1:1
From: Peter, an apostle of Jesus, the Messiah.
Genesis 23:4
"I am an alien and an outsider among you. Give me a cemetery among you where I can bury my dead away from my presence."
Genesis 47:9
"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."
Leviticus 25:23
"The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.
Psalm 119:19
Since I am a stranger on the earth, do not hide your commands from me.
Hebrews 11:13
All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

Abstain

1 Peter 4:2
so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.
Luke 21:34
"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise
Acts 15:20
Instead, we should write to them to keep away from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from anything strangled, and from blood.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.
Romans 13:13
Let's behave decently, as people who live in the light of day. No wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, quarreling, or jealousy!
2 Corinthians 7:1
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.
Galatians 5:16
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.
1 John 2:15
Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

War

Romans 7:23
but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.
Galatians 5:17
For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.
1 Timothy 6:9
But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.
James 4:1
Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

General references

Genesis 21:34
After this, Abraham resided as a foreigner in Philistine territory for a long period of time.
Leviticus 15:16
"If a man has a seminal emission, he is to bathe his entire body with water and remain unclean until evening.
Proverbs 7:26
For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain.
Isaiah 32:16
"Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.

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