1 Peter 2:11

The English Standar Version

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which 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 sojourner and foreigner 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 130 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 you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[5]

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner 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; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, 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 watch 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 trap.

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers,[1] by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[2]

Romans 7:23

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making 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.

2 Corinthians 5:20

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

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him, 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 body[1] and spirit, bringing holiness to completion 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 aliens,[3] 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, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

2 Timothy 2:22

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

Hebrews 11:13

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

Hebrews 6:9

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

James 4:1

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[1] are at war within you?[2]

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test 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 for human passions but for the will of God.

2 Peter 3:1

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,