1 Peter 2:11 - The Scriptures 1998

¹¹ Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the life,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Common English Bible

¹¹ Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

1 Peter 2:11 Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Aḇ

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence.”

Genesis 47:9

And Yaʽ

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commands from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your laws have been my songs In the place of my sojournings.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Leviticus 15:18

‘And when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they both shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 25:23

‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me.

Luke 21:34

“And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down by gluttony, and drunkenness, and worries of this life, and that day come on you suddenly.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what is offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and whoring. If you keep yourselves from these, you shall do well. Be strong!

Romans 12:1

I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.

Romans 7:23

but I see another law in my members, battling against the Torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my 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 shall live.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore we are envoys on behalf of Messiah, as though Elohim were pleading through us. We beg, on behalf of Messiah: Be restored to favour with Elohim.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working together, we also call upon you not to receive the favour of Elohim in vain –

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having, then, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting set-apartness in the fear of Elohim.

Galatians 5:24

And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires.

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,

Ephesians 4:1

I call upon you therefore, I the prisoner of the Master, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

2 Timothy 2:22

And flee from the lusts of youth, but pursue righteousness, belief, love, peace with those calling on the Master out of a clean heart.

Hebrews 11:13

In belief all these died, not having received the promises,but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.

Hebrews 6:9

But although we speak in this way, beloved, we are persuaded, concerning you, of better matters which possess deliverance.

James 4:1

Where do fightings and strivings come from among you? Do they not come from your pleasures that battle in your members?

1 Peter 1:1

Kĕ

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear,

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved ones, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that is coming upon you, to try you, as though some unusual matter has befallen you,

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but according to the desire of Elohim.

2 Peter 3:1

This is now, beloved ones, the second letter I write to you, in which I stir up your sincere mind, to remember