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Life as strangers in the world

11 Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives. 12 Live honorably among the unbelievers. Today, they defame you, as if you were doing evil. But in the day when God visits to judge they will glorify him, because they have observed your honorable deeds.

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11 Dear friends agapētos, I urge parakaleō you as hōs foreigners paroikos and kai exiles parepidēmos to abstain apechō from desires epithumia of the ho flesh sarkikos, which hostis wage war against kata your ho soul psychē, 12 and maintain echō an honorable kalos · ho lifestyle anastrophē among en the ho Gentiles ethnos so that hina, with respect to en the very things about which hos they slander katalaleō you hymeis as hōs evildoers kakopoios, they may , by ek observing epopteuō your ho good kalos works ergon, glorify doxazō · ho God theos on en the day hēmera of visitation episkopē.

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