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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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace 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 an 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 for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

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

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy 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 pilgrims 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 overcharged with surfeiting, 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 pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering 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 ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, 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.

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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 ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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

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

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, 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 seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

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

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