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Peter addresses his readers as “sojourners and exiles” and connects that status to a call to abstain from “passions of the flesh” that wage war against the soul (1 Peter 2:11). The phrase frames them as living temporarily among others while facing moral conflict (1 Peter 2:11).
11Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;