Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society
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Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
Read 1 Peter 2:11 Using Other Translations
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.
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