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 chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.

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

Abstain

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

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

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

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but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but 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; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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

"'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.