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 them that dwell here and there as strangers throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia;

"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."

Wherefore the land shall not be sold forever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me:

For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with thine ears consider my calling; 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 upon earth; O hide not thy commandments from me.

And they all died in faith, and received not the promises: but saw them afar off, and believed them, and saluted them: and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Abstain

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.

but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye must die. But if ye mortify the deeds of the body, by the help of the spirit, ye shall live,

Let us walk honestly as it were in the daylight: not in eating and drinking: neither in chambering and wantonness: neither in strife and envying:

Seeing that we have such promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and grow up to full holiness in the fear of God.

I say, walk in the spirit, and fulfil not the lusts of the flesh.

Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the Lord with pure heart.

See that ye love not the world, nor 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 another law in my members rebelling against the law of my mind, and subduing me unto the law of sin, which is in my members.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye must die. But if ye mortify the deeds of the body, by the help of the spirit, ye shall live,

For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would.

They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

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and dwelt in the Philistine land a long season.

"'If any man's seed depart from him in his sleep, he shall wash his flesh in water and be unclean until evening.

For many a one hath she wounded and cast down, yea many a strong man hath she slain.

Then shall equity dwell in the desert, and righteousness in a fruitful land.