1 Peter 1:14
As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
15but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:10Thou shall therefore obey the voice of LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Romans 6:4We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 2:2in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:6Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,
1 Peter 4:2in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:14-24
Sobriety and Holiness; Exhortation to Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of… Read the whole commentary →