Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Holman Bible
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents
International Standard Version
Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
A Conservative Version
Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
American Standard Version
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
Amplified
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.
An Understandable Version
My dearly loved ones, I urge you, as a people who are foreigners and strangers [in this world], do not give in to sinful desires, which wage war against the soul.
Anderson New Testament
Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,
Bible in Basic English
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
Common New Testament
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your
Darby Translation
Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Beloved, I beseech you, as sojourners and travelers, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
Godbey New Testament
Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.
John Wesley New Testament
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,
Julia Smith Translation
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;
King James 2000
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Modern King James verseion
Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,
Moffatt New Testament
Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.
Montgomery New Testament
I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.
NET Bible
Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
New Heart English Bible
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Noyes New Testament
Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Sawyer New Testament
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
The Emphasized Bible
Beloved! I exhort you, as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly covetings, such as take the field against the soul;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;
Twentieth Century New Testament
Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.
Webster
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Weymouth New Testament
Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.
Williams New Testament
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.
World English Bible
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Worrell New Testament
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;
Worsley New Testament
Dearly beloved, I exhort you as strangers and sojourners here, to abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul:
Youngs Literal Translation
Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
Themes
Body » Resurrection of » Subjugation of
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Flesh » Abstaining from the lusts of the flesh
Life » Lessons of » Pilgrimage, a
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should abstain from fleshly lusts
Righteous » Compared with » Strangers and pilgrims
compared to Saints » Strangers and pilgrims
Self-denial » Becomes strangers and pilgrims
Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Abstaining from fleshly lusts
Sin » Excuses offered for » To be forsaken
Spirit/souls » What wars against the soul
Transgression » Sin, definition of » To be forsaken
War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh
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Devotionals about 1 Peter 2:11
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 Peter 2:11
Images 1 Peter 2:11
Prayers for 1 Peter 2:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Good Works
10 who once [were] not a people, but now [are] the people of God, the ones [who were] not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy. 11 Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul, 12 maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.
Phrases
Cross References
James 4:1
From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Galatians 5:24
Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.
Leviticus 25:23
" 'But the land must not be sold in perpetuity, because the land [is] mine, because you [are] aliens and temporary residents with me.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
Romans 12:1
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.
Galatians 5:16-21
But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.
2 Timothy 2:22
But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.
1 Peter 1:17
And if you call on [him] [as] Father who judges impartially according to each one's work, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your temporary residence,
1 Peter 4:2
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Genesis 23:4
"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Psalm 119:19
I [am] a sojourner on the earth; do not hide your commands from me.
Psalm 119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.
Luke 21:34
"But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly
Acts 15:20
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
Acts 15:29
[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.
Romans 7:23
but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.
Romans 13:13-14
Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.
2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as [if] God were imploring [you] through us. We beg [you] on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Now [because we] are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.
Ephesians 4:1
Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are residing temporarily in the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,