1 PETER 2:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul — the repeated designation as 'foreigners and exiles' (paroikoi kai parepidemoi) establishes that believers' true citizenship lies elsewhere, not in this world. The imperative to abstain (apechō) from 'desires of the flesh' (sarkikon epithumian) is grounded in the recognition that such desires wage war (strateuomai) against the soul (psychē). The metaphor of spiritual warfare establishes that abstinence is not merely ascetical but spiritual resistance.
Church Fathers on 1 Peter 2:11
In like manner, let the young men also be blameless in all things, being especially careful to preserve purity, and keeping themselves in, as with a bridle, from every kind of evil. For it is well that they should be cut off from the lusts that are in the world, since every lust wars against the spirit; 1 Peter 2:11 and neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 nor those who do things…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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