1 Peter 2:11

Conservative English Version

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

Then Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 23:4

"I live as a foreigner in your land, and I don't own any property where I can bury my wife. Please let me buy a piece of land."

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, "I have lived only a hundred thirty years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine."

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

Psalm 119:19

I live here as a stranger. Don't keep me from knowing your commands.

Psalm 119:54

No matter where I am, your teachings fill me with songs.

Psalm 39:12

"Listen, LORD, to my prayer! My eyes are flooded with tears, as I pray to you. I am merely a stranger visiting in your home as my ancestors did.

Leviticus 15:18

After having sex, both the man and the woman must take a bath, but they still remain unclean until evening.

Leviticus 25:23

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me--it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.

Luke 21:34

Don't spend all of your time thinking about eating or drinking or worrying about life. If you do, the final day will suddenly catch you

Acts 15:20

We should simply write and tell them not to eat anything that has been offered to idols. They should be told not to eat the meat of any animal that has been strangled or that still has blood in it. They must also not commit any terrible sexual sins.

Acts 15:29

But you should not eat anything offered to idols. You should not eat any meat that still has the blood in it or any meat of any animal that has been strangled. You must also not commit any terrible sexual sins. If you follow these instructions, you will do well. We send our best wishes.

Romans 12:1

Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God.

Romans 7:23

But in every part of me I discover something fighting against my mind, and it makes me a prisoner of sin that controls everything I do.

Romans 8:13

If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say "No" to your desires.

2 Corinthians 5:20

We were sent to speak for Christ, and God is begging you to listen to our message. We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

We work together with God, and we beg you to make good use of God's kindness to you.

2 Corinthians 7:1

My friends, God has made us these promises. So we should stay away from everything that keeps our bodies and spirits from being clean. We should honor God and try to be completely like him.

Galatians 5:24

And because we belong to Christ Jesus, we have killed our selfish feelings and desires.

Ephesians 2:19

You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens with everyone else who belongs to the family of God.

Ephesians 4:1

As a prisoner of the Lord, I beg you to live in a way that is worthy of the people God has chosen to be his own.

2 Timothy 2:22

Run from temptations that capture young people. Always do the right thing. Be faithful, loving, and easy to get along with. Worship with people whose hearts are pure.

Hebrews 11:13

Every one of those people died. But they still had faith, even though they had not received what they had been promised. They were glad just to see these things from far away, and they agreed that they were only strangers and foreigners on this earth.

Hebrews 6:9

My friends, we are talking this way. But we are sure that you are doing those really good things that people do when they are being saved.

James 4:1

Why do you fight and argue with each other? Isn't it because you are full of selfish desires that fight to control your body?

1 Peter 1:1

From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. To God's people who are scattered like foreigners in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

1 Peter 1:17

You say that God is your Father, but God doesn't have favorites! He judges all people by what they do. So you must honor God while you live as strangers here on earth.

1 Peter 4:12

Dear friends, don't be surprised or shocked that you are going through testing that is like walking through fire.

1 Peter 4:2

It means you have turned from your own desires and want to obey God for the rest of your life.

2 Peter 3:1

My dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to encourage you to do some honest thinking. I don't want you to forget