Parallel Verses

Moffatt New Testament

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

[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].

An Understandable Version

As obedient children, do not pattern your lives after the evil desires you formerly had when you were ignorant,

Anderson New Testament

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in 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:

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

Darby Translation

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

Godbey New Testament

As children of obedience, not being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:

Goodspeed New Testament

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

John Wesley New Testament

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;

Julia Smith Translation

As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance,

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves unto your old lusts of ignorance:

Montgomery New Testament

Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

Sawyer New Testament

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,

The Emphasized Bible

As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

Webster

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,

Williams New Testament

As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better,

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance;

Worsley New Testament

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
As
ὡς 
Hos 
as, when, how, as it were, about,
Usage: 417

ὑπακοή 
Hupakoe 
Usage: 15

τέκνον 
Teknon 
Usage: 69

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

συσχηματίζω 
Suschematizo 
Usage: 2

the former
πρότερον 
Proteron 
Usage: 9

ἐπιθυμία 
Epithumia 
Usage: 35

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Peter 1:14

Images 1 Peter 1:14

Prayers for 1 Peter 1:14

Context Readings

Be Holy In All Your Conduct

13 Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance; 15 as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct ??16 for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.

Cross References

Romans 12:2

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

Acts 17:30

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

1 Peter 4:2-3

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

Romans 6:4

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Ephesians 4:18-22

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 3:5-7

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

Titus 3:3-5

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

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