1 Peter 2:11
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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.
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1 John 2:15-17
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Do Not Love the World
15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—(C)the desires of the flesh and (D)the desires of the eyes and pride of life[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And (E)the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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- 1 John 2:16 Or pride in possessions
Galatians 5:24
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24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus (A)have crucified the flesh with its (B)passions and desires.
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1 Peter 4:2
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2 (A)so as to live for (B)the rest of the time in the flesh (C)no longer for human passions but (D)for the will of God.
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Hebrews 11:13
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13 These all died in faith, (A)not having received the things promised, but (B)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and (C)having acknowledged that they were (D)strangers and exiles on the earth.
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Romans 8:13
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13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you (A)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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James 4:1
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Warning Against Worldliness
4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are (A)at war within you?[b]
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2 Timothy 2:22
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22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart.
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2 Corinthians 7:1
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7 Since we have these promises, beloved, (A)let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body[a] and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
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- 2 Corinthians 7:1 Greek flesh
1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 (A)For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are (B)like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[a]
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- 1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect
Romans 13:13-14
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Romans 12:1
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A Living Sacrifice
12 (A)I appeal to you therefore, brothers,[a] by the mercies of God, (B)to present your bodies (C)as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[b]
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- Romans 12:1 Or brothers and sisters
- Romans 12:1 Or your rational service
Ephesians 4:1
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Unity in the Body of Christ
4 I therefore, (A)a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to (B)walk in a manner worthy of (C)the calling to which you have been called,
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Galatians 5:16-21
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Keep in Step with the Spirit
16 But I say, (A)walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify (B)the desires of the flesh. 17 For (C)the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, (D)to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are (E)led by the Spirit, (F)you are not under the law. 19 Now (G)the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, (H)divisions, 21 envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that (I)those who do[b] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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- Galatians 5:21 Some manuscripts add murder
- Galatians 5:21 Or make a practice of doing
Romans 7:23
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23 but I see in my members (A)another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
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Acts 15:29
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29 (A)that you abstain from (B)what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
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Psalm 119:19
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Psalm 39:12
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12 (A)“Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am (B)a sojourner with you,
(C)a guest, like all my fathers.
Leviticus 25:23
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Redemption of Property
23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for (A)the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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1 Peter 1:17
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17 And if you (A)call on him as Father who (B)judges (C)impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves (D)with fear throughout the time of your exile,
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2 Corinthians 6:1
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6 (A)Working together with him, then, (B)we appeal to you (C)not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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2 Corinthians 5:20
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20 Therefore, (A)we are ambassadors for Christ, (B)God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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Genesis 47:9
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9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my (A)sojourning are 130 years. (B)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (C)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their (D)sojourning.”
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