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

General references

Bible References

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are temporary residents scattered in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

He said: I am a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb that I can bury my dead wife.

Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.

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

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Abstain

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

Be awake so your hearts are not weighed down. Do not allow the weight of worldly involvement, drunkenness, and cares of this life be a snare when that day suddenly comes.

We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.

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

Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.

Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.

I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord with a clean heart.

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

War

However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.

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

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would.

Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

General references

Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for many days.

If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body. He will be unclean until evening.

She has wounded many. Many strong men have been slain by her.

Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will be at home in the fertile field.