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 elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in 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 unto 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 unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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 Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace 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.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Abstain

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

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

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

War

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

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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 even.

For she hath 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.