1 Peter 2:11

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Summary

1 Peter 2:11

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

As

1 Peter 1:1

Hebrews 11:13

Abstain

War

James 4:1

Bible References

As

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen exiles in the Dispersion, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Abstain

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly like a trap.

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

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

War

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you would.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?