1 Peter 1:14
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.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,

obedient.

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

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

*Gr:

not.

1 Peter 4:2,3 That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God. . . .

Romans 6:4 For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

Ephesians 4:18-22 Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. . . .

Colossians 3:5-7 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

in.

Acts 17:30 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

1 Thessalonians 4:5 Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

Titus 3:3-5 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. . . .

Context
A Call to Holiness
13Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance, 15But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:…
Cross References
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

Ephesians 4:18
Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

1 Peter 1:2
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

1 Peter 4:2
That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

1 Peter 1:13
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