"As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:" — 1 Peter 1:14

1 Peter 1:14 · KJV

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

— 1 Peter 1:14

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; {to the end: Gr. perfectly}

Verse 15

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

1 Peter 1 — Context

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

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; {to the end: Gr. perfectly}

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

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Cross References

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.

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.

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.

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:

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Colossians 3:5-7

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Ephesians 4:18-22

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: {blindness: or, hardness}

Acts 17:30

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