Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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From this verse, the Word reaches
In parallel withPhilippians 3:20
Citizenship in heaven is why the pilgrim posture makes sense.
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;”
In parallel withHebrews 11:13
The faithful of the old covenant confessed the same thing: strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
The same threadJohn 17:15
Kept in the world rather than taken out of it, which is the tension every exile lives in.
“I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.”
That reaches back to this verse
In parallel with (this verse)Hebrews 11:13
Peter addresses believers as foreigners and pilgrims, the same confession Abraham's family made.
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”