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 exiles scattered throughout 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 the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Abstain

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with carousing, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow 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 loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

War

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

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And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

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

For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

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