1 Peter 2:11

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

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And he was a settler in the land of the Palestinians for many days.

Genesis 23:4

"I am a newcomer and a sojourner among you. Give me the right of a sepulcher among you, so that I may bury my dead."

Genesis 47:9

He responded, "The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers."

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.

Psalm 39:12

O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.

Leviticus 15:18

The woman with whom he has had sexual intercourse shall be washed with water, and she shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 25:23

Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

Luke 21:34

But be attentive to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts may be weighed down by self-indulgence and inebriation and the cares of this life. And then that day may overwhelm you suddenly.

Acts 15:20

but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell."

Romans 12:1

And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

Romans 7:23

But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, having these promises, most beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Galatians 5:24

For those who are Christ's have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.

Ephesians 2:19

Now, therefore, you are no longer visitors and new arrivals. Instead, you are citizens among the saints in the household of God,

Ephesians 4:1

And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:

2 Timothy 2:22

So then, flee from the desires of your youth, yet truly, pursue justice, faith, hope, charity, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Hebrews 11:13

All of these passed away, adhering to faith, not having received the promises, yet beholding them from afar and saluting them, and confessing themselves to be sojourners and guests upon the earth.

Hebrews 6:9

But from you, most beloved, we are confident that there will be things better and closer to salvation; even though we speak in this way.

James 4:1

Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the newly-arrived elect of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you invoke as Father him who, without showing favoritism to persons, judges according to each one's work, then act in fear during the time of your sojourning here.

1 Peter 4:12

Most beloved, do not choose to sojourn in the passion which is a temptation to you, as if something new might happen to you.

1 Peter 4:2

so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 3:1

Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind,