¹¹Dearly beloved, ^lI beseech you ^mas ⁿstrangers and ^opilgrims, ^pabstain from ^qfleshly lusts, ^rwhich war against the soul; ¹²^sHaving your ^tconversation honest among the Gentiles: that, ^||^uwhereas they speak against you as ^wevildoers, they may ^xby your good works, which they shall ^ybehold, ^zglorify God in the day of ^avisitation.

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Footnotes

lSee Rom. 12:1.
mSee Lev. 25:23.
n Eph. 2:19 (Gk.). See ch. 1:17.
oSee ch. 1:1.
pSee Rom. 13:14.
qSo Gal. 5:24.
rSee James 4:1.
sSo Phil. 2:15. Tit. 2:8. ver. 15. See Rom. 12:17.
tSee Gal. 1:13. Comp. James 3:13.
||Or, wherein. Heb. 2:18. ch. 3:19. & 4:4 in the Gk.
uch. 3:16. So Acts 28:22. ch. 4:14.
w John 18:30 (Gk.). ver. 14. ch. 3:16. & 4:15.
ych. 3:2. So 2 Pet. 1:16.
zSee 2 Cor. 9:13.
a Luke 19:44. See Wisd. 2:20.

Cross references

k Hos. 1:9, 10. & 2:23. Rom. 9:25, 26.
x Matt. 5:16.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul. Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Once you had no identity as a people;

now you are God’s people.

Once you received no mercy;

now you have received God’s mercy.”

Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul, maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.