As strangers and refugees. "You have no birthright here on this earth, but are only staying here temporarily as you travel to Eternity!" Compare Hebrews 11:13. Do not give in. "Since you are citizens of heaven, and will be here only a short time, do not give in to your bodily passions! If you do, you will not reach your homeland!" See Romans 7:23; but also Colossians 2:20-23.
Verse 11. _AS STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS_] Hebrews 11:13. These were _strangers_ and _pilgrims_ in the most literal sense of the word, see 1 Peter 1:1, for they were _strangers_ scattered through Asia, Po...
DEARLY BELOVED, I BESEECH YOU STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS - On the word rendered “strangers,” (παροίκους paroikous,) see the notes at Ephesians 2:19, where it is rendered “foreigners.” It means, properly,...
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS CHAPTER 2:11-3:9 _ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_ 2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18) 3. Glorifying Christ in the marriage...
1 Peter 2:11 F. Three reasons are here given for a life of purity and moderation: (1) that it is in agreement with pilgrim life (a figure frequent in OT and familiar to us from Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Pro...
STRANGERS. Greek. _paroikos._ See Acts 7:6. Compare 1 Peter 1:17. PILGRIMS. Same as "strangers", 1 Peter 1:1. ABSTAIN. See Acts 15:20.
_Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims_ This is manifestly the beginning of a fresh section of the Epistle. Somewhat after the manner of St Paul, the Apostle, alter having allowed hi...
Having described the high privileges of the new Israel of God, St Peter proceeds in this second section of the Epistle to draw various moral lessons from them. In 1 Peter 2:11-12 he describes the pers...
A. EXHORTATION TO PURITY OF MOTIVE AND CONSEQUENTLY TO PURITY OF LIFE IN THE PRESENCE OF HEATHEN. 1 Peter 2:11-12 11 If you are God’s chosen people, citizens of heaven, your present surroundings are...
ΑΓΑΠΗΤΌΣ (G27) _adj._ vb. любимый, возлюбленный, ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять, побуждать, молить (_см._ Romans 12:1). ΠΆΡΟΙΚΟΣ (G3941) чужестранец. Это человек, живущий...
I BESEECH YOU, AS STRANGERS, &C.— "In consideration therefore of these distinguished favours which God has bestowed upon you, I earnestly entreat and exhort you, my dear brethren, to look upon yoursel...
_9. CONDUCT AS SOJOURNERS 2:11, 12_ 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; _Expanded Translation_ Loved ones, I im...
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; As heretofore he exhorted them to walk worthily of their calling, in contrast to the...
VERSE 11. DEARLY BELOVED, I BESEECH YOU. The appeal is urgent and tender I beseech you. Strangers and pilgrims. This the people of God while on earth must continue to be. We are strangers here; we ar...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
2:11 sojourners, (i-8) See Note, ch. 1.1. which (k-14) Which have this character, not simply 'which.'...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
Peter calls his readers ‘dear Christian friends’. He wants them to know that he loves them deeply. He reminds them again that their real home is not in this world (1 Peter 1:1). ‘I urge you’ is a very...
DEARLY BELOVED. — “Affectionate and pressing exhortation,” says Bengel. “That which is known to come from love,” says Leighton, “cannot readily but be so received too, and it is thus expressed for tha...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found...
CHAPTER 7 CHRISTIANS AS PILGRIMS IN THE WORLD 1 Peter 2:11 THE Apostle opens his exhortations with a word eminently Christian: "Beloved." It is a word whose history makes us alive to and thankful fo...
f. indicate generally the subject to be discussed. Beloved I exhort you to abstain from the lusts of the flesh, because they wage war against the soul. Standers and even torments can only affect the b...
THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM'S WALK 1 Peter 2:11 Strong desires must be kept under the stronger hand of the Christian soul-not extirpated but turned into right directions as God's providence points the way....
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR THE WORLD Because they were a part of God's temple, Peter lovingly appealed to his readers, as those who were not living in their true home and would only stay a short while, t...
(9) Dearly beloved, (10) I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, (11) abstain from fleshly lusts, (12) which war against the soul; (9) He returns to that general exhortation. (10) A reason why we...
_I beseech you....to refrain, &c. from all unlawful and disorderly passions, that the Gentiles not yet converted may have nothing to blame in your lives and conversation, but may be edified and induce...
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (12) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak again...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_FLESHLY LUSTS_ ‘Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.’ 1 Peter 2:11 A fleshly lust is either the desire for anything inherently sinful, or the inordinate and excessive appetite f...
11_As strangers, _or _sojourners_. There are two parts to this exhortation, — that their souls were to be free within from wicked and vicious lusts; and also, that they were to live honestly among men...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
DEARLY BELOVED, I BESEECH YOU,.... The apostle, from characters of the saints, and which express their blessings and privileges, with great beauty, propriety, and pertinency, passes to exhortations to...
Dearly beloved, I beseech _you_ as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Ver. 11. _As pilgrims and strangers_] Excellently doth Justin Martyr describe the Ch...
_I beseech you, as strangers_ Or sojourners; _and pilgrims_ Who have no inheritance on this earth, but are travelling to the heavenly country. The former word, παροικοι, properly means those who are i...
AS STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS; there seems to be a double allusion here: first, to their literal dispersion in foreign lands, chap 1 Peter 1:1; secondly, to their being pilgrims and strangers upon earth,...
SPECIFIC ADMONITIONS CONCERNING THE STATION OF THE CHRISTIANS. General requirements:...
DEARLY BELOVED, I BESEECH YOU AS STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY LUSTS, WHICH WAR AGAINST THE SOUL;...
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
_1 Peter 2:11 ‘Beloved,. urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.'_ ‘BELOVED' -‘dear friends' (Arndt p. 6); ‘term of endearment and warm affecti...
11,12 Even the best of men, the chosen generation, the people of God, need to be exhorted to keep from the worst sins. And fleshly lusts are most destructive to man's soul. It is a sore judgment to be...
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS; not only strangers in the several countries where ye inhabit, (being out of your own land), but strangers in the world, as all believers are, 1 Chronicles 29:15 Psalms 39:12 Ps...
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus The invisible soul is guarded by the visible body, and Christians are known indeed to be in the world, but their godliness remains invisible. The flesh hates the soul...
1 Peter 2:11 Beloved G27 beg G3870 (G5719) as G5613 sojourners G3941 and G2532 pilgrims G3927 from G567 ...
‘Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and temporary residents, to abstain (or more literally ‘to continue to hold yourself back') from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul,' We will remember that...
THEY ARE TO ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY DESIRES AND LET THE LIGHT OF THEIR GOOD WORKS SHINE BEFORE MEN (1 PETER 2:11). Their first aim must be to ensure that the world does not become a hindrance to them. T...
THEIR OBEDIENCE AND HEAVENLY CONNECTION IS TO BE REVEALED BY THEIR LIVES AND BY THEIR DUE SUBMISSION TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY IN THE SAME WAY AS CHRIST SUBMITTED HIMSELF THROUGH SUFFERING AND THEREBY WROUG...
1 Peter 2:11. BELOVED, I BESEECH YOU AS STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS. The injunction is given in terms of tender urgency. The opening designation occurs no less than eight times in the Epistles of Peter,...
The mode of address indicates a distinct point of transition in the Epistle. The writer has dealt so far with what holds good absolutely of Christian privilege and Christian responsibility. He begins...
AS SOJOURNERS AND PILGRIMS (ως παροικους κα παρεπιδημους). This combination from the LXX (Genesis 33:4; Psalms 39:13). See 1 Peter 1:1 for παρεπιδημος and...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice,_ This is one of the old corruptible things, so put it away from you 1 Peter 2:1. _And all guile,_ All crafty tricks, all falsehood, exaggeration, do...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:11 Living as Strangers to Bring Glory to God in a Hostile World. Believers should live as exiles in a world that rejects their message. They bear witness to the gospel when t...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:11.—This verse begins some direct counsels concerning the ordering of Christian conduct and relations. As they have a somewhat severe tone, they are commenced...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1), Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently....
1 Chronicles 29:15; 1 John 2:15; 1 Peter 1:1; 1 Peter 1:17; 1 Peter
Beloved [α γ α π η τ ο ι]. A favorite term with Peter, occurring eight times in the epistles. See the phrase, our beloved Barnabas and Paul, Acts 14:25, in the letter sent by the council at Jerusalem...
Here begins the exhortation drawn from the second motive. Sojourners: pilgrims — The first word properly means, those who are in a strange house; the second, those who are in a strange country. You so...
Observe here, 1. dehortation, ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY LUSTS. Quest. What is here meant by LUSTS? Ans. Lust is either habitual or actual: habitual or original lust is the corruption and depravation of t...