1 Peter 1:14
As children of obedience, not being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
15but according to the Holy One who has called you. Be ye also holy in all your deportment;
Cross References
Romans 6:4Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death: in order that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so must we also walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 2:2in which at one time you walked about according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience;
Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Peter 4:2that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in 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 →