1 Peter 2:10-11

A Living Stone and a Holy People

10 g 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.

11 Beloved, I urge you h as sojourners and exiles i to abstain from the passions of the flesh, j which wage war against your soul.

  1. Cross References
    Hosea 1:6
    She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
    Hosea 1:9 - 10
    And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
    Hosea 2:23
    And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
    Romans 9:25 - 26
    As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'
    Romans 10:19
    But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:23
    The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
  3. Cross References
    Romans 13:14
    But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
    Galatians 5:24
    And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  4. Cross References
    James 4:1
    What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
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