"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul..." (1 Pet. 2:11)

The word "pilgrims" in the Greek is "parepidemos" which is a combination of three words: para - (alongside of), epi - (upon), demos - (people of a foreign country or city). Thayer defines it: "One who comes from a foreign country into a city or land to reside there by the side of the natives...in the NT metaph. in reference to heaven as the native country, one who sojourns on earth..." Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia Of The Bible says of the word, "One who stays in a place as a stranger or visitor; to describe Christians whose final citizenship is in heaven and who are regarded as temporary dwellers on earth."

With reference to life on this earth, we are but strangers and pilgrims, passing through, and we will not let earthly lusts take control or win the battle for our souls.