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


In Context

8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence — who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, — to which also they were set;

9 and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

10 who were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

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

12 having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

13 Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

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 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;