1 Peter 1:14
Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
15but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,
Cross References
Romans 6:4We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.
Ephesians 2:2in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:6Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;
1 Thessalonians 4:5Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.
1 Peter 4:2so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men’s desires, 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 →