1 Peter 2:11

Easy To Read Version

Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers \{in this world\}. So I beg you to stay away from the evil things your bodies want to do. These things fight against your soul.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham stayed a long time in the country of the Philistines.

Genesis 23:4

“I am only a traveler staying in your country. I have no place to bury my wife. Please give me some land so I can bury my wife.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “I have had a short life with many troubles. I have lived only 130 years. My father and his ancestors [251] lived to be much older than I am.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only strangers traveling through\par this world like our ancestors. {\cf2\super [323]} \par Our time on earth is like a passing shadow.\par And we can’t stop it.\par

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger in this land.\par Lord, don’t hide your teachings from me.\par

Psalm 119:54

Your laws are my songs at home. {\cf2\super [592]} \par

Psalm 39:12

Lord, hear my prayer!\par Listen to the words I cry to you.\par Look at my tears.\par I am only a traveler\par passing through this life with you.\par Like all my ancestors, I live here only\par a short time. {\cf2\super [241]} \par

Leviticus 15:18

If a man sleeps with a woman and has a flow of semen, then both the man and the woman must bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 25:23

“The land really belongs to me. So you can’t really sell it permanently. You are only foreigners and travelers living {on my land} with me.

Luke 21:34

“Be careful! Don’t spend your time drinking and getting drunk. Or don’t be too busy with worldly things. If you do that, you will not be able to think right. And then the end might come when you are not ready.

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write a letter to them. We should tell them these things:

Acts 15:29

Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. {\cf2\super [320]} \par Don’t eat meat from animals that have been\par strangled (choked) or\par any meat that still has the blood in it.\par Don’t do any kind of sexual sin.\par

Romans 12:1

So brothers and sisters, I beg you to do something. God has shown us great mercy. So offer your lives as a living sacrifice {\cf2\super [130]} to God. Your offering must be only for God and will be pleasing to him. This offering of yourselves is the spiritual way for you to worship (serve) God.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [64]} help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have \{true\} life.

2 Corinthians 6:1

We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don’t let the grace (kindness) that you received from God be for nothing.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises \{from God\}. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. We should try to become perfect in the way we live, because we respect God.

Galatians 5:24

Those people who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified (killed) their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Ephesians 2:19

So now you \{non-Jews\} are not visitors or strangers. Now you are citizens together with God’s holy people. {\cf2\super [14]} You belong to God’s family.

Ephesians 4:1

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. And God chose you to be his people. I tell you now to live the way God’s people should live.

2 Timothy 2:22

Stay away from the evil things a young person wants to do. Try very hard to live right and to have faith, love, and peace. Do these things together with those people who have pure hearts and trust in the Lord.

Hebrews 11:13

All those great men continued living with faith until they died. Those men did not get the things that God promised his people. The men only saw those things coming far in the future and were glad. Those men accepted the fact that they were like visitors and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 6:9

Dear friends, we are saying these hard things, but we really we expect better things from you. We feel sure that you will do the things that are a part of salvation.

James 4:1

Do you know where your fights and arguments come from? Your fights and arguments come from the selfish desires that make war inside you.

1 Peter 1:1

Greetings from Peter, an apostle {\cf2\super [1]} of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:17

You pray to God and call him Father. God judges each man’s work equally. So while you are visiting \{here on earth\}, you should live with fear (respect) for God.

1 Peter 4:12

My friends, don’t be surprised at the painful things that you are now suffering. Those things are testing your faith. Don’t think that something strange is happening to you.

1 Peter 4:2

\{Strengthen yourselves\} so that you will live your lives here on earth doing what God wants, not doing the evil things that people want.

2 Peter 3:1

My friends, this is the second letter I have written to you. I wrote both letters to you to help your honest minds remember something.