Parallel Verses

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,

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,

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 Therefore, as a means of spiritual preparation, tighten up the belt about your minds, keep perfectly calm, keep your hope on the spiritual blessing to be conferred upon you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better, 15 but in accordance with the Holy Being who has called you, you must prove to be holy too,


Cross References

Romans 12:2

Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.

Acts 17:30

Though God overlooked those times of ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent,

1 Peter 4:2-3

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

Romans 6:4

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

Ephesians 4:18-22

with darkened understanding, estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and because of the stubbornness of their hearts;

Ephesians 5:6

Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient.

Colossians 3:5-7

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not out of evil passions as the heathen do who do not know God;

Titus 3:3-5

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

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