"Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" — 1 Peter 2:11

1 Peter 2:11 · KJV

“Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

— 1 Peter 2:11

Which in time past {were} not a people, but {are} now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Verse 12

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by {your} good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. {whereas: or, wherein}

1 Peter 2 — Context

But ye {are} a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: {peculiar: or, purchased} {praises: or, virtues}

Which in time past {were} not a people, but {are} now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Cross References

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, neither the things {that are} in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. {affections: or, passions}

1 Peter 4:2

That he no longer should live the rest of {his} time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of {them}, and embraced {them}, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. {in faith: Gr. according to faith}

Romans 8:13

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}

James 4:1

From whence {come} wars and fightings among you? {come they} not hence, {even} of your lusts that war in your members? {fightings: or, brawlings} {lusts: or, pleasures}

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, {which is} your reasonable service.