“Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.”
1 Peter 2:11
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Connection with Abraham the foreigner
The Greek translation of Genesis that the early church read uses paroikos (G3941) and parepidemos (G3927) for the two words Abraham used of himself among the Hittites. Peter used both words here for believers scattered across Asia Minor: "foreigners and exiles." Hebrews says Abraham's family "acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth" (Hebrews 11:13).
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