1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
James 4:1
What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?
Romans 8:13
for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have impaled the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Leviticus 25:23
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.
Romans 12:1
I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Galatians 5:16-21
I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord with a clean heart.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time you spend here in reverence.
1 Peter 4:2
From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Genesis 23:4
He said: I am a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb that I can bury my dead wife.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
1 Chronicles 29:15
You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.
Psalm 119:54
Your statutes are my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Luke 21:34
Be awake so your hearts are not weighed down. Do not allow the weight of worldly involvement, drunkenness, and cares of this life be a snare when that day suddenly comes.
Acts 15:20
We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.
Acts 15:29
You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell (best wishes).
Romans 7:23
However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.
Romans 13:13-14
Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain (to no purpose) (in emptiness).
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, invite you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are temporary residents scattered in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.