1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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9 But ye a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10 Which in time past not a people, but now the people of Elohim: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by good works, which they shall behold, glorify Elohim in the day of visitation.
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;