1 Peter 1:14
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
15but as he who has called you is holy, so be you holy in all your behavior:
Cross References
Romans 6:4Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.
Ephesians 2:2in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:
Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with vain words: for on account of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;
1 Peter 4:2so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to 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 →