1Pet 2:11 Cross References
1 Peter 2:11
11: Dear brothers and sisters, you are foreigners and aliens here. So I warn you to keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.
1 John 2:15
- Stop loving this evil world and all that it offers you, for when you love the world, you show that you do not have the love of the Father in you.
- For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world.
- And this world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever.
Galatians 5:24
- Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.
1 Peter 4:2
- And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
Hebrews 11:13
- All these faithful ones died without receiving what God had promised them, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed the promises of God. They agreed that they were no more than foreigners and nomads here on earth.
James 4:1
- What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you?
2 Corinthians 7:1
- Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete purity because we fear God.
Romans 8:13
- For if you keep on following it, you will perish. But if through the power of the Holy Spirit you turn from it and its evil deeds, you will live.
Romans 12:1
- And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice--the kind he will accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask?
1 Chronicles 29:15
- We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a shadow, gone so soon without a trace.
2 Timothy 2:22
- Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right. Pursue faith and love and peace, and enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.
Romans 13:13
- We should be decent and true in everything we do, so that everyone can approve of our behavior. Don't participate in wild parties and getting drunk, or in adultery and immoral living, or in fighting and jealousy.
- But let the Lord Jesus Christ take control of you, and don't think of ways to indulge your evil desires.
Acts 15:29
- You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well. Farewell."
Psalms 39:12
- Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cries for help! Don't ignore my tears. For I am your guest--a traveler passing through, as my ancestors were before me.
Leviticus 25:23
- And remember, the land must never be sold on a permanent basis because it really belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenants living with me.
Ephesians 4:1
- Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.
Psalms 119:19
- I am but a foreigner here on earth; I need the guidance of your commands. Don't hide them from me!
Luke 21:34
- "Watch out! Don't let me find you living in careless ease and drunkenness, and filled with the worries of this life. Don't let that day catch you unaware,
Galatians 5:16
- So I advise you to live according to your new life in the Holy Spirit. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves.
- The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.
- But when you are directed by the Holy Spirit, you are no longer subject to the law.
- When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,
- idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group,
Romans 7:23
- But there is another law at work within me that is at war with my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
Genesis 47:9
- Jacob replied, "I have lived for 130 hard years, but I am still not nearly as old as many of my ancestors."
Acts 15:20
- except that we should write to them and tell them to abstain from eating meat sacrificed to idols, from sexual immorality, and from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals.
1 Peter 1:17
- And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites when he judges. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as foreigners here on earth.
2 Corinthians 5:20
- We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, "Be reconciled to God!"
1 Timothy 6:9
- But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
Philemon 1:9
- but because of our love, I prefer just to ask you. So take this as a request from your friend Paul, an old man, now in prison for the sake of Christ Jesus.
- My plea is that you show kindness to Onesimus. I think of him as my own son because he became a believer as a result of my ministry here in prison.
1 Peter 1:1
- This letter is from Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to God's chosen people who are living as foreigners in the lands of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia.
2 Corinthians 6:1
- As God's partners, we beg you not to reject this marvelous message of God's great kindness.
Psalms 119:54
- Your principles have been the music of my life throughout the years of my pilgrimage.
Genesis 23:4
- "Here I am, a stranger in a foreign land, with no place to bury my wife. Please let me have a piece of land for a burial plot."