1 Peter 2:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀγαπητοί, παρακαλῶ ὡς παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήμους, ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν σαρκικῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, αἵτινες στρατεύονται κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς·

Transliteration

Agapētoi, parakalō as paroikous and parepidēmous, apechesthai tōn sarkikōn epithymiōn, haitines strateuontai kata tēs psychēs;

Grammar Details

• *Agapētoi*: adjective, masculine plural vocative - beloved
• *parakalō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I exhort/encourage/urge
• *paroikous*: noun, masculine plural accusative - sojourners/resident aliens
• *parepidēmous*: noun, masculine plural accusative - strangers/pilgrims
• *apechesthai*: present middle infinitive - to abstain from
• *tōn sarkikōn*: adjective with article, feminine plural genitive - fleshly/carnal
• *epithymiōn*: noun, feminine plural genitive - desires/lusts
• *haitines*: relative pronoun, feminine plural nominative - which
• *strateuontai*: present middle indicative, 3rd person plural - wage war
• *kata*: preposition + genitive - against
• *tēs psychēs*: noun with article, feminine singular genitive - the soul

Word Meanings

• *Agapētoi*: beloved/dear ones
• *parakalō*: I exhort/encourage/urge/beseech
• *paroikous*: sojourners/resident aliens/temporary residents
• *parepidēmous*: strangers/pilgrims/exiles
• *apechesthai*: to abstain from/keep away from/refrain from
• *sarkikōn*: fleshly/carnal/bodily
• *epithymiōn*: desires/lusts/cravings
• *strateuontai*: wage war/battle/campaign
• *psychēs*: soul/life/self

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• Gal 5:24 : 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Rom 8:13 : 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• Jas 4:1 : 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Rom 13:13-14 : 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
• 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
• Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
• Rom 7:23 : 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
• Luke 21:34 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
• Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
• Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
• 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
• Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Gal 5:16-21 : 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• 1 Pet 1:17 : 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 here in fear:
• 1 Pet 1:1 : 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
• Phlm 1:9-9 : 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
• Ps 119:54 : 54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
• Gen 23:4 : 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.