1 Peter 2:11 - Common English Bible

Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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Catholic Public Domain Version

Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

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Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

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