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1 Peter 2:11 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, "

1 Peter 2:11

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9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

10 In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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

12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.

13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,

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"Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious."

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