1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not conform yourselves to the desires that you followed when you were ignorant.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
15But as the one who called you is holy, you, too, be holy in your whole behavior.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:10You must therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God and obey his commandments and statutes that I am commanding you today.”
Romans 6:4We were buried, then, with him through baptism into death. This happened in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 2:2It was in these trespasses and sins that you once lived according to the ways of this world. You were living according to the ruler of the authorities of the air, the spirit that is working in the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the anger of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in the passion of lust (as the Gentiles who do not know God).
1 Peter 4:2As a result, such a person, for the rest of his time in the flesh, no longer lives for men's desires, but for God's will.
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 →