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1 Peter 2:11
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1 Peter 2:11
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Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society
11 Dear friends,(A) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,(B) to abstain from sinful desires,(C) which wage war against your soul.(D)
1 Peter 2:11
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1 Peter 2:11
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11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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1 Peter 2:12
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1 Peter 2:12
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12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds(A) and glorify God(B) on the day he visits us.
1 Peter 2:12
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1 Peter 2:12
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12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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1 Peter 2:15
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1 Peter 2:15
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15 For it is God’s will(A) that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.(B)
1 Peter 2:15
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1 Peter 2:15
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15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
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1 Peter 2:16
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1 Peter 2:16
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16 Live as free people,(A) but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;(B) live as God’s slaves.(C)
1 Peter 2:16
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1 Peter 2:16
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16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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