1 Peter 2:11

1 Peter 2:11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you -

Peter puts his hands together, and pleads with intense earnestness.

1 Peter 2:11. As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Those fleshly lusts belong to this present evil world, but you do not belong to it; you are "strangers and pilgrims" here, therefore feel an absolute alienation towards such things, an utter abhorrence of them. Do not even think of them, much less practice them. "Abstain from fleshly lusts;" for, while they injure the body, that is not the worst thing that they do, for they "war against the soul."