Parallel Verses

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:

Moffatt New Testament

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your 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. Remain sober, and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 Be holy in all your conduct, just as the one who called you is holy.

Cross References

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Acts 17:30

God overlooked the times of ignorance; but now he commands men everywhere to repent.

1 Peter 4:2-3

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

Romans 6:4

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life.

Ephesians 2:2

You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:18-22

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words. It is because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 3:5-7

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.

Titus 3:3-5

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

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