1 Peter 2:11
“Dearely beloued, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which warre against the soule,”
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1 Peter 2:11 Context
9But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that yee should shewe forth the praises of him, who hath called you out of darknes into his marueilous light: 10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obteined mercie, but now haue obteined mercy. 11Dearely beloued, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which warre against the soule, 12Hauing your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speake against you as euill doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorifie God in the day of visitation. 13Submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lordes sake, whether it be to the King, as supreme,
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Other Translations for 1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- King James Version
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
- American Standard Version (1901)
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
- Basic English Bible
Beloved, I exhort [you], as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Darby Bible
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Webster's Bible
Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.
- Weymouth Bible
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- World English Bible
Moost dere, Y biseche you, as comelyngis and pilgrymys, to absteine you fro fleischli desiris, that fiyten ayens the soule;
- Wycliffe Bible
Beloved, I call upon [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Peter 2:11
2:11 Here begins the exhortation drawn from the second motive. Sojourners: pilgrims - The first word properly means, those who are in a strange house; the second, those who are in a strange country. You sojourn in the body; you are pilgrims in this world. Abstain from desires of anything in this house, or in this country.
People's Bible Notes for 1 Peter 2:11
1Pe 2:11 I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims. "As sojourners" (Revised Version). They were all, like the fathers (Heb 11:13), only pilgrims and sojourners on the earth, seeking for a better home. Hence they should abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul, which would destroy their prospects of that home.