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1John 2:15-17
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Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (niv)
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1 Peter 4 2
As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. (niv)
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Hebrews 11:13
All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. (niv)
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James 4:1
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? (niv)
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2 Corinthians 7 1
Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. (niv)
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Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. (niv)
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Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God— this is your true and proper worship. (niv)
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2 Timothy 2 22
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (niv)
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Romans 13:13-14
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh. (niv)
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Acts 15:29
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. (niv)
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1 Chronicles 29 15
We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. (niv)
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Leviticus 25:23
“‘ The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. (niv)
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Ephesians 4:1
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. (niv)
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Psalms 39:12
“ Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were. (niv)
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Luke 21:34
“ Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. (niv)
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Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me. (niv)
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Galatians 5:16-21
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factionsand envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (niv)
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Romans 7:23
but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. (niv)
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1 Peter 1 17
Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. (niv)
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1 Timothy 6 9-1 Timothy 6 10
Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (niv)
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Acts 15:20
Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. (niv)
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Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh,“ The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.” (niv)
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1 Peter 1 1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, (niv)
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2 Corinthians 6 1
As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 5 20
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. (niv)
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Philemon 1:9-10
yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul— an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. (niv)
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Genesis 23:4
“ I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.” (niv)
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Psalms 119:54
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge. (niv)