And Abraham resided as an alien many days in the land of the Philistines.
1 Peter 2:11 - New Revised Standard Version Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul. American Standard Version (1901) Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Common English Bible Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives. Catholic Public Domain Version Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul, |
And Abraham resided as an alien many days in the land of the Philistines.
“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”
For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.
If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.
“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly,
but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
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.
So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God,
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,
Even though we speak in this way, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that belong to salvation.
Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by human desires but by the will of God.
This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse your sincere intention by reminding you