1 Peter 2:11 | |
NASB: Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. (NASB ©1995) GWT: Dear friends, since you are foreigners and temporary residents [in the world], I'm encouraging you to keep away from the desires of your corrupt nature. These desires constantly attack you. (GOD'S WORD®) KJV: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; ASV: Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul; BBE: My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul; DBY: Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; WEY: Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul. WBS: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; WEB: Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; YLT: Beloved, I call upon [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul, | |
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