1 Peter 2:11 f. Three reasons are here given for a life of purity and moderation: (1) that it is in agreement with pilgrim life (a figure frequent in OT and familiar to us from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress), (2) that it may not give offence to the Gentiles, (3) that it may win the latter, by the force of example, to the same life. We know what wicked and groundless accusations were made against the Christians, and how, as Harnack shows in the Mission and Expansion of Christianity, it was by the conduct of the Christians that the truest headway was made in the spread of the faith.
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1 Peter 2:11
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;