1 Peter 2:11

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1 Peter 2:11

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

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James 4:1

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Bible References

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

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.

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.

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

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.

Abstain

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

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.

but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

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.

Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

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

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

And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

War

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.

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.

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 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.

From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

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And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.