1 Peter 2:11

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“Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;”

— ASV

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1 John 2:15-17 "Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him."
Galatians 5:24 "Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts."
1 Peter 4:2 "that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God."
Hebrews 11:13 "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seenTR adds “and being convinced of” them and embraced them from af…"
Romans 8:13 "For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live."
1 Chronicles 29:15 "For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining."
James 4:1 "Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?"
Romans 12:1 "Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your …"

Commentary

As heretofore he exhorted them to walk worthily of their calling, in contradistinction to their own former walk, so now he exhorts them to glorify God before unbelievers. Dearly beloved--He gains their attention to his exhortation by assuring them of his love. strangers and pilgrims-- (Pe1 1:17). Sojourners, literally, settlers having a house in a city without being citizens in respect to the rights of citizenship; a picture of the Christian's position on earth; and pilgrims, staying for a time in a foreign land. FLACIUS thus analyzes the exhortation: (1) Purify your souls (a) as strangers on earth who must not allow yourselves to be kept back by earthly lusts, and (b) because these lusts war against the soul's salvation. (2) Walk piously among unbelievers (a) so that they may cease to calumniate Christians, and (b) may themselves be converted to Christ. fleshly lusts--enumerated in Gal 5:19, &c. Not only the gross appetites which we have in common with the brutes, but all the thoughts of the unrenewed mind. which--Greek, "the which," that is, inasmuch as being such as "war." &c. Not only do they impede, but they assail [BENGEL]. the soul--that is, against the regenerated soul; such as were those now addressed. The regenerated soul is besieged by sinful lusts.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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