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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Abstain

War

James 4:1

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Bible References

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ:

To the temporary residents dispersed

in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”

“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

“Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.

I am a stranger on earth;
do not hide Your commands from me.

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

Abstain

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completing our sanctification in the fear of God.

I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Flee from youthful passions, 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 that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

War

But I see a different law in the parts of my body,

waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

General references

And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.

“When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

For she has brought many down to death;
her victims are countless.

Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.