1 Peter 2:11

Modern English Version

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a foreigner among you. Give me property for a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers and sojourners before You, just as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O  Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with You, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman, and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be permanently sold, for the land is Mine, for you are foreigners and sojourners with Me.

Luke 21:34

“Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become burdened by excessiveness and drunkenness and anxieties of life, and that Day comes on you unexpectedly.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

Abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

Romans 12:1

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship.

Romans 7:23

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you in Christ’s stead: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As workers together with God, we ask you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Galatians 5:24

Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Ephesians 2:19

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called.

2 Timothy 2:22

So flee youthful desires and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 6:9

But though we speak in this manner, we are persuaded of better things for you, things that accompany salvation,

James 4:1

Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your body?

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the refugees scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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 sojourning.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you.

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh serving human desires, but the will of God.

2 Peter 3:1

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