1 Peter 1:14
As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:10Thou shalt therefore hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God,—and do his commandments and his statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day.
Romans 6:4We were, therefore, buried together with him through our immersion into his death, in order that—just as Christ was raised from among the dead through the glory of the Father, so, we also, in newness of life should walk.
Ephesians 2:2In which at one time ye walked, according to the age of the world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, of the spirit that now energiseth in the sons of disobedience,
Ephesians 5:6Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:
1 Thessalonians 4:5Not with a passion of coveting,—just as even the nations who know not God,—
1 Peter 4:2To the end that, no longer, in men’s covetings, but in God’s will, ye may live, the still remaining time.
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 →