1 Peter 1:14
Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,
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As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
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Romans 6:4Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father’s power, so we also may live a new life.
Ephesians 2:2For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air – the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.
Ephesians 5:6Do not let anyone deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the wrath of God on the disobedient.
1 Thessalonians 4:5and not for the mere gratification of your passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;
1 Peter 4:2and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, 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 →