All of these people died in faith, not yet receiving the things promised. But they saw them far off and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let’s cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles the flesh and the spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
Therefore I urge y’all, siblings, by the mercies of God, to present y’all’s bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your* proper sacred service.
but I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my body parts.
Y’all are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. Y’all will do well to keep away from these things. Farewell to y’all.”
“But y’all be careful, or y’all’s hearts will be weighed down with intoxication, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, and that day will come down on y’all unexpectedly like a trap.
Instead we should write to them that they should abstain from the things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are living as foreigners scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen