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 · 2000Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Beloved, 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.