1 Peter 2:11

A Call To Good Works

¹⁰ who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. ¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires, ¹² which war against the soul, Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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 fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

Romans 8:13

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

Romans 12:1

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

Galatians 5:16-21

I say then, walk by the Spirit, and fulfil not the desire of the flesh.

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee also youthful desires; but follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace with them that call upon the Lord, out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 11:13

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and embraced them, and confest that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

1 Peter 1:17

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

1 Peter 4:2

(for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin) That ye may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh, to the desire of men, but to the will of God.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world: if any one 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 be overloaded with gluttony, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Acts 15:20

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

Acts 15:29

and things strangled and fornication; from which keeping yourselves ye will do well. Fare ye well.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my members.

Romans 13:13-14

Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore we are embassadors for Christ, as though God were intreating by us: we beseech you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you, to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye are called,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But they that desire to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter an Apostle of Jesus Christ to the sojourners scattered thro' Pontus,