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


In Context

8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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

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

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

13 Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling;

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 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,

The American 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;