Catholic Public Domain Version
"Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul. "
— 1 Peter 2:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
“ Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; ”
“Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
“Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,”
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,”
“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;”
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
and a stone of offense, and a rock of scandal, to those who are offended by the Word; neither do they believe, though they also have been built upon him.
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, so that you may announce the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Though in past times you were not a people, yet now you are the people of God. Though you had not obtained mercy, yet now you have obtained mercy.
Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.
Keep your behavior among the Gentiles to what is good, so that, when they slander you as if you were evildoers, they may, by the good works that are seen in you, glorify God on the day of visitation.
Therefore, be subject to every human creature because of God, whether it is to the king as preeminent,
or to leaders as having been sent from him for vindication over evildoers, it is truly for the praise of what is good.