11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;


In Context

8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;

10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

1 Peter 2:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:11Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:11Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:11Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,