1 Peter 1:14
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
In Context
15but according as He who did call you [is] holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:10and thou hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and done His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day.'
Romans 6:4we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
Ephesians 2:2in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
1 Peter 4:2no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
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 →