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1 Peter 1:14
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As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
Before, you only rode for yourself and did whatever you wanted to do. But now you are children of God and we ride for him and do whatever he wants us to.
Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:
as children of obedience, not conformed to [your] former lusts in your ignorance;
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;
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,
As obedient children, not fashioning your selues according to the former lusts, in your ignorance:
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to your former lusts in your ignorance,
as obedient childre, not fasshionynge youre selues to yor olde lustes of ignoraunce:
[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].
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
as obediet chyldre not facioninge youre selves vnto youre olde lustes of ignoracye:
as sons of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former desires in [the time of] your ignorance:
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
Now that you are obedient children of God do not live as you did in the past. You did not understand, so you did the evil things you wanted.
Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
Behave like obedient children. Don't let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be.
As people who obey God, do not let yourselves be shaped by the evil desires you used to have when you were still ignorant.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
As obedient children, not fashioning your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignorance:
Like obedient children, not partakers again in those sinful desires for which you once lusted in your ignorance:
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that you once had in your ignorance.Acts 17:30; Romans 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; 1 Peter 4:2;">[xr]
as obedient children, and not partaking again of the former desires which you desired when ignorant.
as obedient children: and be ye not conversant again with those former lusts, with which ye lusted when without knowledge.
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
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.
Be like children who obey. Do not desire to sin like you used to when you did not know any better.
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance:
As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to in your ignorance,
As obedient chyldren, not fashionyng your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignoraunce:
In the past you did not have the understanding you have now, so you did the evil things you wanted to do. But now you are children of God, so you should obey him and not live the way you did before.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant.
as sones of obedience, not made lijk to the formere desiris of youre vnkunnyngnesse,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
obedient: Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 5:6,*Gr.
not: 1 Peter 4:2, 1 Peter 4:3, Romans 6:4, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 4:18-22, Colossians 3:5-7
in: Acts 17:30, 1 Thessalonians 4:5, Titus 3:3-5
Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:10 - General Leviticus 14:14 - General Deuteronomy 27:10 - General Isaiah 35:8 - The way Isaiah 52:11 - touch Ezekiel 18:31 - Cast Hosea 14:8 - What Matthew 5:9 - for Luke 1:75 - General Luke 10:6 - the Son Luke 18:17 - General John 3:7 - Ye John 15:16 - that your Acts 26:20 - and do Romans 6:2 - live Romans 6:12 - in the lusts 2 Corinthians 5:15 - henceforth 2 Corinthians 10:5 - the obedience Galatians 5:16 - and Ephesians 2:3 - in the Philippians 2:15 - sons Colossians 3:6 - children Colossians 3:10 - after 1 Thessalonians 4:7 - God Titus 2:12 - live James 4:1 - come they 1 John 2:16 - the lust of the flesh
Cross-References
Where is this king of the Jews who is now born? for we have seen his rising star, and are come to pay him homage.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkned, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
Now after the time of that distress, the sun shall be dark, and the moon shall give no light:
the sun was obscured, and the veil of the temple was rent in two.
And when I beheld the opening of the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake: the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; the stars
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkned, and the day lost a third part of its light, and the night likewise.
and he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkned by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As obedient children,.... Or "children of obedience". This may be connected either with what goes before, that seeing they were children of God, by adopting grace, and in regeneration brought to the obedience of faith, to whom the inheritance belonged, therefore they ought to continue hoping for it; or with what follows, that since they were manifestly the children of God by faith in. Christ Jesus, being begotten again to a lively hope, they ought to be followers of him, and imitate him in holiness and righteousness, and show themselves to be obedient ones to his Gospel and ordinances, as children ought to honour, and obey, and imitate their parents:
not fashioning yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance. The phrase is much the same with that in Romans 12:2 "be not conformed to this world"; for to be conformed, or fashioned to the world, is to be fashioned to the lusts of it; and to be fashioned to the lusts of it is to indulge them, to make provision for them, to obey them, to live and walk in them; which should not be done by the children of God, and who profess themselves to be obedient ones to the Gospel, which teaches otherwise; and that because they are lusts, foolish, hurtful, and deceitful ones, ungodly ones; the lusts of the devil, as well as of the world, and of the flesh, and which war against the soul; and because they are "former" ones, which they served in a time of unregeneracy, and were now convinced and ashamed of, and therefore should no longer live to them; the time past of life being sufficient to have walked in them: and because they were lusts in ignorance, which they had indulged in a state of ignorance; not of Gentilism, though this might be the case of some, but of Judaism; when they knew not God, especially in Christ, and were ignorant of his righteousness, and of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, as committed against a law that was holy and spiritual; nor did they know Christ, and the way of salvation by him, but thought they ought to do many things contrary to his name; nor the work of the Spirit in regeneration, saying with Nicodemus, how can these things be? nor the true sense of the Scriptures, the sacred oracles, that were committed to them; much less the Gospel, which was hidden from them, and they were enemies to: but now it was otherwise with them; they were made light in the Lord, and had knowledge of all these things; and therefore, as their light increased, and the grace of God, bringing salvation, appeared unto them, and shone out on then, it became them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and not to walk as they had done before, since they had not so learned Christ.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As obedient children - That is, conduct yourselves as becomes the children of God, by obeying his commands; by submitting to His will; and by manifesting unwavering confidence in him as your Father at all times.
Not fashioning yourselves - Not forming or modeling your life. Compare the notes at Romans 12:2. The idea is, that they were to have some model or example, in accordance with which they were to frame their lives, but that they were not to make their own former principles and conduct the model. The Christian is to be as different from what he was himself before conversion as he is from his fellow-men. He is to be governed by new laws, to aim at new objects, and to mould his life in accordance with new principles. Before conversion, he was:
(a)Supremely selfish;
(b)He lived for personal gratification;
(c)He gave free indulgence to his appetites and passions, restrained only by a respect for the decencies of life, and by a reference to his own health, property, or reputation, without regard to the will of God;
(d)He conformed himself to the customs and opinions around him, rather than to the requirements of his Maker;
(e)He lived for worldly aggrandizements, his supreme object being wealth or fame; or,
(f)In many cases, those who are now Christians, gave indulgence to every passion which they wished to gratify, regardless of reputation, health, property, or salvation.
Now they are to be governed by a different rule, and their own former standard of morals and of opinions is no longer their guide, but the will of God.
According to the former lusts in your ignorance - When you were ignorant of the requirements of the gospel, and gave yourselves up to the unrestrained indulgence of your passions.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. Not fashioning yourselves — As the offices of certain persons are known by the garb or livery they wear, so are transgressors: where we see the world's livery we see the world's servants; they fashion or habit themselves according to their lusts, and we may guess that they have a worldly mind by their conformity to worldly fashions.
