1 Peter 2:11

A Call To Good Works

¹⁰ who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but are now the objects of mercy. ¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul; ¹² having your conduct ornamental among the Gentiles: that, whereas they malign you as wicked doers, they may, being eye-witnesses of your good works, glorify God in the day when he visits them.

Abstain from

Desires of the Flesh

Of the Flesh

On Earth

Strangers and Pilgrims

Aliens And Strangers

Refrain From

James 4:1

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

Romans 8:13

For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Galatians 5:24

But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites.

Romans 12:1

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Galatians 5:16-21

But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

2 Timothy 2:22

But flee youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 11:13

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them at a great distance, though believing and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

1 Peter 1:17

And if ye invoke him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourning with [jealous] fear:

1 Peter 4:2

that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts should be overloaded with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the anxious cares of life, and that day should come upon you unawares.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idol [sacrifices], and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that ye abstain from eating whatever is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from whoredom: from which things carefully preserving yourselves, ye shall do well. Farewell.

Romans 7:23

but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 13:13-14

Let us walk becomingly as in the face of day, not in revels and drunkenness, not in impurities and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God exhorted you by us; we entreat you for Christ's sake, be ye reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

WE then as labourers with him, exhort you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

Ephesians 4:1

I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition.

1 Peter 1:1

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners, dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,