1 Peter 2:10-11

1 Peter 2:10-11. But are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Dearly beloved, I beseech you us strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;-

If you are priests,-as you are if you are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ,-take care that you are clean before God. Let no impurity stain your body, for sin committed by the body grievously befouls the spirit, and defiles the heart: "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"-