1 Peter 2:11

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Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from fleshly desires, which wage war against the soul.

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  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them. 16 For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17 The world is passing away, along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
  • 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 All these people died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar and been persuaded of them, and having embraced them, they openly declared that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts?
  • Rom 13:13-14 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the daytime, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 As workers together with Him, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercies, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 With reproofs for iniquity, You discipline a man; like a moth, You consume his cherished things. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Rom 7:23 : 23 but I see another law at work in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with indulgence, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a sojourner on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob replied to Pharaoh, 'The days of my sojourning have been one hundred thirty years. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not compare to the years of the lives of my fathers during their sojourning.'
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine; you are only foreigners and residents with me.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 Therefore, I, a prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
  • Gal 5:16-21 : 16 I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 If you call upon the Father, who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, live your lives in reverent fear during the time of your temporary residence here.
  • 1 Pet 1:1 : 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen exiles scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
  • Phlm 1:9-9 : 9 I appeal instead, on the basis of love. Being such as I am—Paul, an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus— 10 I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I became a father to while in my chains.
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 “I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me a burial site among you so I can bury my dead out of my sight.”

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