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1 Peter 2:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

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;

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And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;




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