1 Peter 2:11 Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life in your...

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The Message - Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life in your neighborhood so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they’ll be won over to God’s side and be there to join in the celebration when he arrives.
新标点和合本 - 亲爱的弟兄啊，你们是客旅，是寄居的。我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲；这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 亲爱的，你们是客旅，是寄居的，我劝你们要禁戒肉体的情欲；这情欲是与灵魂争战的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 亲爱的，你们是客旅，是寄居的，我劝你们要禁戒肉体的情欲；这情欲是与灵魂争战的。
当代译本 - 亲爱的弟兄姊妹，你们是客旅，是寄居的，我劝你们要禁戒与灵魂为敌的邪情私欲。
圣经新译本 - 亲爱的，我劝你们作客旅和寄居的人，要禁戒肉体的私欲，这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
中文标准译本 - 各位蒙爱的人哪，我劝你们：做为过客和寄居的，要远避那与你们灵魂争战的肉体欲望。
现代标点和合本 - 亲爱的弟兄啊，你们是客旅，是寄居的。我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲，这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
和合本（拼音版） - 亲爱的弟兄啊，你们是客旅，是寄居的。我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲，这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
New International Version - Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
New International Reader's Version - Dear friends, you are outsiders and those who wander in this world. So I’m asking you not to give in to your sinful desires. They fight against your soul.
English Standard Version - Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
New Living Translation - Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.
Christian Standard Bible - Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
New American Standard Bible - Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.
New King James Version - Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
Amplified Bible - Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.
American Standard Version - Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
King James Version - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
New English Translation - Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
World English Bible - Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
新標點和合本 - 親愛的弟兄啊，你們是客旅，是寄居的。我勸你們要禁戒肉體的私慾；這私慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 親愛的，你們是客旅，是寄居的，我勸你們要禁戒肉體的情慾；這情慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 親愛的，你們是客旅，是寄居的，我勸你們要禁戒肉體的情慾；這情慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
當代譯本 - 親愛的弟兄姊妹，你們是客旅，是寄居的，我勸你們要禁戒與靈魂為敵的邪情私慾。
聖經新譯本 - 親愛的，我勸你們作客旅和寄居的人，要禁戒肉體的私慾，這私慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
呂振中譯本 - 親愛的，我勸你們做僑民做寄居的、要禁戒那對你們的靈魂交戰的肉體私慾；
中文標準譯本 - 各位蒙愛的人哪，我勸你們：做為過客和寄居的，要遠避那與你們靈魂爭戰的肉體欲望。
現代標點和合本 - 親愛的弟兄啊，你們是客旅，是寄居的。我勸你們要禁戒肉體的私慾，這私慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
文理和合譯本 - 愛友乎、爾若客旅、若寄居、我勸爾戒形軀之慾、即攻爾心者也、
文理委辦譯本 - 凡我良朋為羈旅、我勸爾去私欲、欲戰於中、足害爾魂、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我所愛者、爾曹在世既為賓客羈旅、我勸爾去肉體之慾、即敵靈者也、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 親愛之同道乎、人生在世、猶如作客他鄉、務望自愛、切弗縱情恣慾、以戕賊心靈。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Queridos hermanos, les ruego como a extranjeros y peregrinos en este mundo que se aparten de los deseos pecaminosos que combaten contra la vida.
현대인의 성경 - 사랑하는 여러분, 우리는 이 세상에서 나그네와 행인 같은 사람들입니다. 그러므로 영혼을 대적하여 싸우는 육체의 정욕을 이기십시오.
Новый Русский Перевод - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас как пришельцев и странников , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
Восточный перевод - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас, живущих в этом мире как пришельцы и странники , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас, живущих в этом мире как пришельцы и странники , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас, живущих в этом мире как пришельцы и странники , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mes chers amis, vous êtes dans ce monde comme des résidents temporaires, des étrangers ; c’est pourquoi je vous le demande : ne cédez pas aux désirs de l’homme livré à lui-même : ils font la guerre en vous.
リビングバイブル - 愛する皆さん。この地上では、あなたがたは旅人であり、一時の滞在者にすぎないのですから、あなたがたのたましいに戦いをいどむ、この世の快楽から遠ざかりなさい。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ἀγαπητοί, παρακαλῶ ὡς παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήμους ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν σαρκικῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν αἵτινες στρατεύονται κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἀγαπητοί, παρακαλῶ ὡς παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήμους, ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν σαρκικῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, αἵτινες στρατεύονται κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς;
Nova Versão Internacional - Amados, insisto em que, como estrangeiros e peregrinos no mundo, vocês se abstenham dos desejos carnais que guerreiam contra a alma.
Hoffnung für alle - Meine lieben Freunde! Ihr wisst, dass ihr in dieser Welt Fremde seid; sie ist nicht eure Heimat. Deshalb bitte ich euch eindringlich: Gebt den Angeboten und Verlockungen dieser Welt nicht nach. Ihr Ziel ist es, euch innerlich zu zerstören!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Anh chị em thân yêu, dưới trần thế này anh chị em chỉ là khách lạ. Thiên đàng mới là quê hương thật của anh chị em. Vậy, tôi xin anh chị em hãy xa lánh mọi dục vọng tội lỗi vì chúng phá hoại linh hồn anh chị em.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เพื่อนที่รักผู้อยู่ในฐานะคนต่างด้าวและคนแปลกหน้าในโลกนี้ ข้าพเจ้าขอวิงวอนท่านให้ละทิ้งตัณหาชั่วซึ่งต่อสู้กับวิญญาณจิตของท่าน
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ท่านที่รักทั้งหลาย ข้าพเจ้าขอให้ท่าน ในฐานะที่ท่านเป็นคนแปลกถิ่นและคนต่างแดน ละเว้นจากตัณหาฝ่ายเนื้อหนัง ซึ่งยังคงต่อสู้กับจิตวิญญาณของท่าน

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2 Corinthians 6:1 - Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. God reminds us, I heard your call in the nick of time; The day you needed me, I was there to help. Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped. Don’t put it off; don’t frustrate God’s work by showing up late, throwing a question mark over everything we’re doing. Our work as God’s servants gets validated—or not—in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we’re beaten up, jailed, and mobbed; working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love; when we’re telling the truth, and when God’s showing his power; when we’re doing our best setting things right; when we’re praised, and when we’re blamed; slandered, and honored; true to our word, though distrusted; ignored by the world, but recognized by God; terrifically alive, though rumored to be dead; beaten within an inch of our lives, but refusing to die; immersed in tears, yet always filled with deep joy; living on handouts, yet enriching many; having nothing, having it all.
1 Peter 1:1 - I, Peter, am an apostle on assignment by Jesus, the Messiah, writing to exiles scattered to the four winds. Not one is missing, not one forgotten. God the Father has his eye on each of you, and has determined by the work of the Spirit to keep you obedient through the sacrifice of Jesus. May everything good from God be yours!
Philemon 1:10 - While here in jail, I’ve fathered a child, so to speak. And here he is, hand-carrying this letter—Onesimus! He was useless to you before; now he’s useful to both of us. I’m sending him back to you, but it feels like I’m cutting off my right arm in doing so. I wanted in the worst way to keep him here as your stand-in to help out while I’m in jail for the Message. But I didn’t want to do anything behind your back, make you do a good deed that you hadn’t willingly agreed to.
Genesis 47:9 - Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are 130—a short and hard life and not nearly as long as my ancestors were given.” Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and left.
1 Timothy 6:9 - But if it’s only money these leaders are after, they’ll self-destruct in no time. Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.
1 Peter 1:17 - You call out to God for help and he helps—he’s a good Father that way. But don’t forget, he’s also a responsible Father, and won’t let you get by with sloppy living.
Galatians 5:16 - My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are contrary to each other, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence? * * *
Galatians 5:19 - It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.
Luke 21:34 - “But be on your guard. Don’t let the sharp edge of your expectation get dulled by parties and drinking and shopping. Otherwise, that Day is going to take you by complete surprise, spring on you suddenly like a trap, for it’s going to come on everyone, everywhere, at once. So, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep at the wheel. Pray constantly that you will have the strength and wits to make it through everything that’s coming and end up on your feet before the Son of Man.”
Psalms 39:12 - “Ah, God, listen to my prayer, my cry—open your ears. Don’t be callous; just look at these tears of mine. I’m a stranger here. I don’t know my way— a migrant like my whole family. Give me a break, cut me some slack before it’s too late and I’m out of here.”
Leviticus 25:23 - “The land cannot be sold permanently because the land is mine and you are foreigners—you’re my tenants. You must provide for the right of redemption for any of the land that you own.
Ephesians 4:1 - In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.
2 Timothy 2:22 - Run away from childish indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God. Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights. God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands.
Romans 12:1 - So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
2 Corinthians 7:1 - With promises like this to pull us on, dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that defiles or distracts us, both within and without. Let’s make our entire lives fit and holy temples for the worship of God.
James 4:1 - Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don’t have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn’t yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.
Hebrews 11:13 - Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.

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The Message - Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life in your neighborhood so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they’ll be won over to God’s side and be there to join in the celebration when he arrives.
新标点和合本 - 亲爱的弟兄啊，你们是客旅，是寄居的。我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲；这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 亲爱的，你们是客旅，是寄居的，我劝你们要禁戒肉体的情欲；这情欲是与灵魂争战的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 亲爱的，你们是客旅，是寄居的，我劝你们要禁戒肉体的情欲；这情欲是与灵魂争战的。
当代译本 - 亲爱的弟兄姊妹，你们是客旅，是寄居的，我劝你们要禁戒与灵魂为敌的邪情私欲。
圣经新译本 - 亲爱的，我劝你们作客旅和寄居的人，要禁戒肉体的私欲，这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
中文标准译本 - 各位蒙爱的人哪，我劝你们：做为过客和寄居的，要远避那与你们灵魂争战的肉体欲望。
现代标点和合本 - 亲爱的弟兄啊，你们是客旅，是寄居的。我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲，这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
和合本（拼音版） - 亲爱的弟兄啊，你们是客旅，是寄居的。我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲，这私欲是与灵魂争战的。
New International Version - Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
New International Reader's Version - Dear friends, you are outsiders and those who wander in this world. So I’m asking you not to give in to your sinful desires. They fight against your soul.
English Standard Version - Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
New Living Translation - Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.
Christian Standard Bible - Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
New American Standard Bible - Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.
New King James Version - Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
Amplified Bible - Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.
American Standard Version - Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
King James Version - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
New English Translation - Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
World English Bible - Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
新標點和合本 - 親愛的弟兄啊，你們是客旅，是寄居的。我勸你們要禁戒肉體的私慾；這私慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 親愛的，你們是客旅，是寄居的，我勸你們要禁戒肉體的情慾；這情慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 親愛的，你們是客旅，是寄居的，我勸你們要禁戒肉體的情慾；這情慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
當代譯本 - 親愛的弟兄姊妹，你們是客旅，是寄居的，我勸你們要禁戒與靈魂為敵的邪情私慾。
聖經新譯本 - 親愛的，我勸你們作客旅和寄居的人，要禁戒肉體的私慾，這私慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
呂振中譯本 - 親愛的，我勸你們做僑民做寄居的、要禁戒那對你們的靈魂交戰的肉體私慾；
中文標準譯本 - 各位蒙愛的人哪，我勸你們：做為過客和寄居的，要遠避那與你們靈魂爭戰的肉體欲望。
現代標點和合本 - 親愛的弟兄啊，你們是客旅，是寄居的。我勸你們要禁戒肉體的私慾，這私慾是與靈魂爭戰的。
文理和合譯本 - 愛友乎、爾若客旅、若寄居、我勸爾戒形軀之慾、即攻爾心者也、
文理委辦譯本 - 凡我良朋為羈旅、我勸爾去私欲、欲戰於中、足害爾魂、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我所愛者、爾曹在世既為賓客羈旅、我勸爾去肉體之慾、即敵靈者也、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 親愛之同道乎、人生在世、猶如作客他鄉、務望自愛、切弗縱情恣慾、以戕賊心靈。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Queridos hermanos, les ruego como a extranjeros y peregrinos en este mundo que se aparten de los deseos pecaminosos que combaten contra la vida.
현대인의 성경 - 사랑하는 여러분, 우리는 이 세상에서 나그네와 행인 같은 사람들입니다. 그러므로 영혼을 대적하여 싸우는 육체의 정욕을 이기십시오.
Новый Русский Перевод - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас как пришельцев и странников , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
Восточный перевод - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас, живущих в этом мире как пришельцы и странники , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас, живущих в этом мире как пришельцы и странники , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Возлюбленные, я умоляю вас, живущих в этом мире как пришельцы и странники , держаться подальше от ваших низменных желаний, которые воюют против вашей души.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mes chers amis, vous êtes dans ce monde comme des résidents temporaires, des étrangers ; c’est pourquoi je vous le demande : ne cédez pas aux désirs de l’homme livré à lui-même : ils font la guerre en vous.
リビングバイブル - 愛する皆さん。この地上では、あなたがたは旅人であり、一時の滞在者にすぎないのですから、あなたがたのたましいに戦いをいどむ、この世の快楽から遠ざかりなさい。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ἀγαπητοί, παρακαλῶ ὡς παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήμους ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν σαρκικῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν αἵτινες στρατεύονται κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἀγαπητοί, παρακαλῶ ὡς παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήμους, ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν σαρκικῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, αἵτινες στρατεύονται κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς;
Nova Versão Internacional - Amados, insisto em que, como estrangeiros e peregrinos no mundo, vocês se abstenham dos desejos carnais que guerreiam contra a alma.
Hoffnung für alle - Meine lieben Freunde! Ihr wisst, dass ihr in dieser Welt Fremde seid; sie ist nicht eure Heimat. Deshalb bitte ich euch eindringlich: Gebt den Angeboten und Verlockungen dieser Welt nicht nach. Ihr Ziel ist es, euch innerlich zu zerstören!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Anh chị em thân yêu, dưới trần thế này anh chị em chỉ là khách lạ. Thiên đàng mới là quê hương thật của anh chị em. Vậy, tôi xin anh chị em hãy xa lánh mọi dục vọng tội lỗi vì chúng phá hoại linh hồn anh chị em.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เพื่อนที่รักผู้อยู่ในฐานะคนต่างด้าวและคนแปลกหน้าในโลกนี้ ข้าพเจ้าขอวิงวอนท่านให้ละทิ้งตัณหาชั่วซึ่งต่อสู้กับวิญญาณจิตของท่าน
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ท่านที่รักทั้งหลาย ข้าพเจ้าขอให้ท่าน ในฐานะที่ท่านเป็นคนแปลกถิ่นและคนต่างแดน ละเว้นจากตัณหาฝ่ายเนื้อหนัง ซึ่งยังคงต่อสู้กับจิตวิญญาณของท่าน

2 Corinthians 6:1 - Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. God reminds us, I heard your call in the nick of time; The day you needed me, I was there to help. Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped. Don’t put it off; don’t frustrate God’s work by showing up late, throwing a question mark over everything we’re doing. Our work as God’s servants gets validated—or not—in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we’re beaten up, jailed, and mobbed; working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love; when we’re telling the truth, and when God’s showing his power; when we’re doing our best setting things right; when we’re praised, and when we’re blamed; slandered, and honored; true to our word, though distrusted; ignored by the world, but recognized by God; terrifically alive, though rumored to be dead; beaten within an inch of our lives, but refusing to die; immersed in tears, yet always filled with deep joy; living on handouts, yet enriching many; having nothing, having it all.
1 Peter 1:1 - I, Peter, am an apostle on assignment by Jesus, the Messiah, writing to exiles scattered to the four winds. Not one is missing, not one forgotten. God the Father has his eye on each of you, and has determined by the work of the Spirit to keep you obedient through the sacrifice of Jesus. May everything good from God be yours!
Philemon 1:10 - While here in jail, I’ve fathered a child, so to speak. And here he is, hand-carrying this letter—Onesimus! He was useless to you before; now he’s useful to both of us. I’m sending him back to you, but it feels like I’m cutting off my right arm in doing so. I wanted in the worst way to keep him here as your stand-in to help out while I’m in jail for the Message. But I didn’t want to do anything behind your back, make you do a good deed that you hadn’t willingly agreed to.
Genesis 47:9 - Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are 130—a short and hard life and not nearly as long as my ancestors were given.” Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and left.
1 Timothy 6:9 - But if it’s only money these leaders are after, they’ll self-destruct in no time. Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.
1 Peter 1:17 - You call out to God for help and he helps—he’s a good Father that way. But don’t forget, he’s also a responsible Father, and won’t let you get by with sloppy living.
Galatians 5:16 - My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are contrary to each other, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence? * * *
Galatians 5:19 - It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.
Luke 21:34 - “But be on your guard. Don’t let the sharp edge of your expectation get dulled by parties and drinking and shopping. Otherwise, that Day is going to take you by complete surprise, spring on you suddenly like a trap, for it’s going to come on everyone, everywhere, at once. So, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep at the wheel. Pray constantly that you will have the strength and wits to make it through everything that’s coming and end up on your feet before the Son of Man.”
Psalms 39:12 - “Ah, God, listen to my prayer, my cry—open your ears. Don’t be callous; just look at these tears of mine. I’m a stranger here. I don’t know my way— a migrant like my whole family. Give me a break, cut me some slack before it’s too late and I’m out of here.”
Leviticus 25:23 - “The land cannot be sold permanently because the land is mine and you are foreigners—you’re my tenants. You must provide for the right of redemption for any of the land that you own.
Ephesians 4:1 - In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.
2 Timothy 2:22 - Run away from childish indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God. Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights. God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands.
Romans 12:1 - So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
2 Corinthians 7:1 - With promises like this to pull us on, dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that defiles or distracts us, both within and without. Let’s make our entire lives fit and holy temples for the worship of God.
James 4:1 - Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don’t have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn’t yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.
Hebrews 11:13 - Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.