ESV Reformation Study Bible – 1 Pet 2:11
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1 Pet 2:11

2:11 passions of the flesh. Bodily desires are not wrong in themselves, but are perverted by man’s sinful nature. The expression includes not just sins of the body, but other desires of our fallen nature (Gal. 5:19–21).