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1 Peter 1:14

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Character;   Commandments;   Holiness;   Obedience;   Righteous;   Worldliness;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Duty;   Formation;   Ignorance;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   Spiritual;   Three-Fold Duty of Life;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Character of Saints;   Holiness;   Ignorance of God;   Obedience to God;   Saints, Compared to;   Titles and Names of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Child;   Ethics;   Mind;   Obedience;   Sanctification;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christians, Names of;   Consecrate;   Ignorant, Ignorance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holiness of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Child;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Children;   Peter, the Epistles of;   Sin Offering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ignorance;   Passion;   1 Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ignorance;   Liberty;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Christian Life;   Example;   Ignorance;   Lust;   Marriage;   Obedience;   Peter Epistles of;   Sanctify, Sanctification;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Child;   Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Fashion;   Former;   Ignorance;   Lust;   Obedience;   Peter, Simon;   Peter, the First Epistle of;   Regeneration;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for October 29;   Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 15;   Every Day Light - Devotion for April 23;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for August 10;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
King James Version (1611)
As obedient children, not fashioning your selues according to the former lusts, in your ignorance:
King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
English Standard Version
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
New American Standard Bible
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
New Century Version
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
Berean Standard Bible
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
Contemporary English Version
Behave like obedient children. Don't let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be.
Complete Jewish Bible
As people who obey God, do not let yourselves be shaped by the evil desires you used to have when you were still ignorant.
Darby Translation
as children of obedience, not conformed to [your] former lusts in your ignorance;
Easy-to-Read Version
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As obedient children, not fashioning your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignorance:
George Lamsa Translation
Like obedient children, not partakers again in those sinful desires for which you once lusted in your ignorance:
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.
Lexham English Bible
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to in your ignorance,
Literal Translation
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to your former lusts 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].
American Standard Version
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:
Bible in Basic English
Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:
Hebrew Names Version
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
International Standard Version
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]
Etheridge Translation
as obedient children, and not partaking again of the former desires which you desired when ignorant.
Murdock Translation
as obedient children: and be ye not conversant again with those former lusts, with which ye lusted when without knowledge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As obedient chyldren, not fashionyng your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignoraunce:
English Revised Version
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts 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,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;
Weymouth's 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,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as sones of obedience, not made lijk to the formere desiris of youre vnkunnyngnesse,
Update Bible Version
as sons of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former desires in [the time of] your ignorance:
Webster's Bible Translation
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
New English Translation
Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,
New King James Version
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your 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.
New Life Bible
Be like children who obey. Do not desire to sin like you used to when you did not know any better.
New Revised Standard
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance:
Douay-Rheims Bible
As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,
Revised Standard Version
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
as obediet chyldre not facioninge youre selves vnto youre olde lustes of ignoracye:
Young's Literal Translation
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
as obedient childre, not fasshionynge youre selues to yor olde lustes of ignoraunce:
Mace New Testament (1729)
as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.
Simplified Cowboy Version
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.

Contextual Overview

13So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that's coming when Jesus arrives. Don't lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn't know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God's life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, "I am holy; you be holy." 17 You call out to God for help and he helps—he's a good Father that way. But don't forget, he's also a responsible Father, and won't let you get by with sloppy living. 18Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ's sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It's because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God. 22Now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God's living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself! That's why the prophet said, The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers droop, God's Word goes on and on forever. This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.

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

Genesis 1:1
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Genesis 1:3
God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared. God saw that light was good and separated light from dark. God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning— Day One.
Genesis 1:6
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.
Genesis 1:9
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
Genesis 1:16
God made two big lights, the larger to take charge of Day, The smaller to be in charge of Night; and he made the stars. God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth And oversee Day and Night, to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Four.
Genesis 1:20
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.
Genesis 1:26
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
Genesis 1:31
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
Genesis 8:22
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."

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.


 
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