NIV: Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
NAS: Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
KJV: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
GWT: Dear friends, since you are foreigners and temporary residents [in the world], I'm encouraging you to keep away from the desires of your corrupt nature. These desires constantly attack you.
ASV: Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
BBE: My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
DBY: Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
DRB: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,
WBS: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
WEB: Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
YLT: Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
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