1 Peter 1:14
Live like children who do what they're told. Don't allow yourselves to be shaped by your former sinful desires when you didn't know any better.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
15Now you need to be holy in everything you do, just as the one who called you is holy.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:10So obey what the Lord your God tells you, and follow commandments and regulations that I'm giving you today.”
Romans 6:4Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life.
Ephesians 2:2living your lives according to the ways of the world, under the control of the devil, whose spirit is at work in those who disobey God.
Ephesians 5:6Don't let anyone fool you with lying words, for it's because of such things that God's judgment comes upon the children of disobedience.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not indulging passionate lust like the heathen who have no knowledge of God.
1 Peter 4:2You will not live the rest of your lives following human desires, but doing what God wants.
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 →