1 Peter 1:14
And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
Cross References
Romans 6:4Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.
Ephesians 2:2which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.
Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.
1 Thessalonians 4:5that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
1 Peter 4:2that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed 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 →