1 Peter 1:14
New International Version
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

New Living Translation
So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.

English Standard Version
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Berean Standard Bible
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

Berean Literal Bible
as children of obedience, not being conformed to the passions in your former ignorance.

King James Bible
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

New King James Version
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;

New American Standard Bible
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

NASB 1995
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

NASB 1977
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Legacy Standard Bible
As obedient children, not being conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Amplified Bible
[Live] as obedient children [of God]; do not be conformed to the evil desires which governed you in your ignorance [before you knew the requirements and transforming power of the good news regarding salvation].

Christian Standard Bible
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

American Standard Version
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
As obedient children, and do not be partaking again of your former lusts, which you were lusting without knowledge.

Contemporary English Version
Behave like obedient children. Don't let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:

English Revised Version
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Because you are children who obey God, don't live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn't know any better.

Good News Translation
Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant.

International Standard Version
As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.

Literal Standard Version
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

Majority Standard Bible
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

New American Bible
Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance

NET Bible
Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

New Revised Standard Version
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

New Heart English Bible
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires as in your ignorance,

Webster's Bible Translation
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Weymouth New Testament
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,

World English Bible
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Young's Literal Translation
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

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Context
A Call to Holiness
13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. 15But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,…

Cross References
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 Peter 4:2
Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.


Treasury of Scripture

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

obedient.

Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

not.

1 Peter 4:2,3
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God…

Romans 6:4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

in.

Acts 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Titus 3:3-5
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another…

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1 Peter 1
1. Peter praises God for his manifold spiritual graces;
10. showing that the salvation in Christ the fulfillment of prophesy;
13. and exhorts them accordingly to be holy.














(14) As obedient children.--Literally, as children of obedience--children, i.e., in the sense of relationship, not of age. It is characteristic of the writer to keep one thought underlying many digressions, and so here, the appeal to them as "children" is based on the "begotten again" of 1Peter 1:3, and "inheritance" of 1Peter 1:4; it comes up again in 1Peter 1:17, "the Father"; in 1Peter 1:22, "the brethren"; and again in 1Peter 1:23, "begotten again." The usual characteristic of Jews in the New Testament is disobedience. (See Note on 2Thessalonians 1:8.) The "as" means "in keeping with your character of," just as we say in common English, "Do so like obedient children." . . . Verse 14. - As obedient children; rather, children of obedience (comp. Ephesians 2:2, 3; Ephesians 5:8; also 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; Luke 16:8). Winer says ('Grammar,' 3. 34; 'Romans,' 2), "This mode of expression is to be traced to the more lively imagination of the Orientals, by which the most intimate connection (derivation from and dependence on) - even when the reference is to what is not material - is viewed under the image of the relation of son or child to parent. Hence ' children of disobedience' are those who belong to disobedience as a child to his mother - disobedience having become their nature, their predominant disposition." Not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance. The remarkable word συσχηματιζόμενοι seems to be an echo of Born. 12:2, the only other place where it occurs. It implies that men who live in sensual lusts take up the likeness of those lusts into themselves, and are made, not as man was at first, after the likeness of God, but after the likeness of those lusts of the flesh which are not of the Father, but are of the world. The word "ignorance" is to be taken closely with "lusts" - "the former lusts which were in the time of your ignorance." It seems to imply that St. Peter is addressing Gentiles as well as Jews; top, though ignorance is attributed to the Jews (Acts 3:17; Romans 10:3; 1 Timothy 1:13), it was ignorance, not of the moral law, as here, but of the Person and office of Christ. The Jews had the oracles of God; they knew his will (Romans 2:17; Romans 3:2; comp. also Ephesians 4:18 and Acts 17:30).

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Greek
As
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

obedient
ὑπακοῆς (hypakoēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 5218: Obedience, submissiveness, compliance. From hupakouo; attentive hearkening, i.e. compliance or submission.

children,
τέκνα (tekna)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 5043: A child, descendent, inhabitant. From the base of timoria; a child.

do not conform
συσχηματιζόμενοι (syschēmatizomenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4964: To conform to. From sun and a derivative of schema; to fashion alike, i.e. Conform to the same pattern.

to the
ταῖς (tais)
Article - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

passions
ἐπιθυμίαις (epithymiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1939: Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.

of
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

former
πρότερον (proteron)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular - Comparative
Strong's 4386: Formerly, before. Neuter of proteros as adverb; previously.

ignorance.
ἀγνοίᾳ (agnoia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 52: Ignorance, inadvertence, sometimes with the idea of willful blindness. From agnoeo; ignorance.


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