I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As God is exhorting through us, we beseech you on Christ's behalf, Be reconciled to God.

We then, as workers together with Him, also beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you; being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my bonds,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, behave yourselves throughout the time of your sojourning in fear;

I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead from before my face.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.

For we are strangers and sojourners before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

I am a sojourner in the earth; do not hide Your Commandments from me.

Your Statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were foreigners and pilgrims on the earth.

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with giddiness, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, from sexual perversion, from things strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual perversion. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Let us walk decently, as in the day, not in carousings and drunkenness, not in cohabitation and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

But flee youthful lusts; and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But those who purpose to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, for which some being greedy, have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Where do wars and fightings come from among you? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your members?