1 Peter 2:11

Legacy Standard Bible

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul,

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a sojourner and a foreign resident among you; give me a possession for a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 47:9

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and foreign residents, like all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Psalm 119:19

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

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have become my songs In the house of my sojourning.

Psalm 39:12

¶“Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and give ear to my cry for help; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a sojourner with You, A foreign resident like all my fathers.

Leviticus 15:18

If there is a woman with whom a man lies so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 25:23

‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but sojourners and foreign residents with Me.

Luke 21:34

“But be on guard, so that your hearts will not be overcome with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from sexual immorality and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, you will do well. Farewell.”

Romans 12:1

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 8:13

for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die, but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the practices of the body, you will live.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as God is pleading through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working together with Him, we also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain—

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,

Ephesians 4:1

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

2 Timothy 2:22

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Hebrews 11:13

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 6:9

But we are convinced about you, beloved, of things that are better and that belong to salvation, though we are speaking in this way.

James 4:1

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as exiles, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen

1 Peter 1:17

And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourn,

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you.

1 Peter 4:2

so as to no longer live the rest of the time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

2 Peter 3:1

This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,