1 Peter 2:11
King James VersionSource notes
“Dearly beloved, I beseech as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
Context
8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9But ye a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10Which in time past not a people, but now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11Dearly beloved, I beseech as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
14Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.