Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcom
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you w
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow,
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit,
Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord o
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, no
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorali
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling wit
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that pl
But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin th
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of
Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Ch
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”