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1 Peter 2:11. ESV Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. NIV Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. John 3:6 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
The passions of the flesh are the “desires of body and mind” and they are activated when we allow these base passions to have control over us. When we follow these base desires we are being led by the passions of our flesh rather than the sensibilities and rationale of our mind.
Aug 22, 2022 · Can you explain to me 1 Peter 2:11, and how these ‘passions of the flesh’ actually ‘wage war against’ the soul? How do these passions threaten the soul? Can you explain how this works?
Jul 11, 2023 · The concept of crucifying the flesh comes from the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 5:24: “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” In this verse, it’s clear that crucifying the flesh is not something done to the believer, but by the believer: “Those who belong to Christ ...
Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God’s] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].
By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
