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Your Heavenly Citizenship
Peter calls you a 'sojourner and pilgrim' to establish a core Christian identity. Commentators explain this isn't just about being physically displaced, but about a spiritual reality: your true citizenship is in heaven. This perspective is the foundation for holy living. Like a traveler who doesn't get bogged down in a foreign land, you are called to live with a degree of detachment from this world's values and desires, keeping your focus on your eternal home.
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1 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Peter 2:11
18th Century
Theologian
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims. On the word translated strangers (paroikous; see Ephesians 2:19…
AT Robertson
On 1 Peter 2:11
As sojourners and pilgrims (ως παροικους κα παρεπιδημους). This combination from the LXX (Genesis 33:4; [Reference Psa…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Peter 2:11
19th Century
Bishop
Dearly beloved.—“Affectionate and pressing exhortation,” says Bengel. “That which is known to come from love,” says Leighton, “cannot read…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Peter 2:11
19th Century
Preacher
As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Those fleshly lusts belong to this present evil w…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Peter 2:11
This next division of the letter deals with some practical implications of what it means to be God’s people in a hostile world. Peter begins by rem…
John Calvin
On 1 Peter 2:11
16th Century
Theologian
As strangers, or sojourners. There are two parts to this exhortation: that their souls were to be free within from wicked and vic…
John Gill
On 1 Peter 2:11
17th Century
Pastor
Dearly beloved, I beseech you
The apostle, from characters of the saints, and which express their blessings and priv…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Peter 2:11–12
17th Century
Minister
Even the best of people, the chosen generation, the people of God, need to be exhorted to keep from the worst sins. And fleshly lusts are most dest…