1 Peter 1:14
Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,
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In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
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Deuteronomy 27:10You shall listen to his voice, and you shall do the commandments and justices, which I am entrusting to you.”
Romans 6:4For through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the newness of life.
Ephesians 2:2in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.
Ephesians 5:6Let no one seduce you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God was sent upon the sons of unbelief.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,
1 Peter 4:2so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires 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 →