15 For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors.(A) Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.(B)

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13 These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance,(A) greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.(B)

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A Call to Good Works

11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents(A) to abstain(B) from fleshly(C) desires that war against you.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:11 Or against the soul

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