1 Peter 2:11

1 Peter chapter 2 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.10who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

v.11This passage

v.12having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Philemon 1:9

    yet for love’s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:

  • Romans 7:23

    but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

  • 1 Peter 1:17

    And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

  • Galatians 5:16

    But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

  • Psalms 119:19

    I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.

  • 1 John 2:15

    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.