1 Peter 2:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

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

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, 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 sojourning are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner on earth; hide not thy commandments from me!

Psalm 119:54

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

Leviticus 15:18

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

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Luke 21:34

“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 7:23

but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which 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.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have 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 members of the household of God,

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

2 Timothy 2:22

So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 6:9

Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation.

James 4:1

What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which comes upon you to prove you, as though something strange were happening to you.

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions but by the will of God.

2 Peter 3:1

This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder;