Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
abstain from fleshly lusts: Peter told the people of God that while they are on this journey they were to abstain from fleshly lusts. These, he says, will destroy you because they war against the soul. Fleshly lusts are pleasant to the senses but deadly to the soul.