1 Peter 2:11
World English Bible (WEB)
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
In context
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
10 In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
1 Peter 2:11 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
- KJV King James Version
- Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Beloved, I call upon [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Beloved, I exhort [you], as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- WBS Webster Bible
- Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;