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

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Bible References

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

A sojourner and a settler I am with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;

for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

Abstain

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

War

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

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

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and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.

'And when a man's seed of copulation goeth out from him, then he hath bathed with water all his flesh, and been unclean till the evening.

For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones.

And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.