1 Peter 2:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

Genesis 23:4

“Although I am a resident alien among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes become my songs wherever I make my home.

Psalm 39:12

You chastise man with rebukes for sin; like a moth you consume his treasures. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Leviticus 15:18

If a man has sexual relations with a woman, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold irrevocably; for the land is mine, and you are but resident aliens and under my authority.

Luke 21:34

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise

Acts 15:20

but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Romans 12:1

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.

Romans 7:23

but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Children of God Through Adoption.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together, then, we appeal to 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 every defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ [Jesus] have crucified their 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 holy ones and members of the household of God,

Ephesians 4:1

I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received,

2 Timothy 2:22

So turn from youthful desires and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord with purity of heart.

Hebrews 11:13

All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,

Hebrews 6:9

But we are sure in your regard, beloved, of better things related to salvation, even though we speak in this way.

James 4:1

Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 Peter 1:17

Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as if something strange were happening to you.

1 Peter 4:2

so as not to spend what remains of one’s life in the flesh on human desires, but on the will of God.

2 Peter 3:1

This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; through them by way of reminder I am trying to stir up your sincere disposition,