Parallel Verses

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,

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:

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 Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ. 14 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, 15 but--in imitation of the holy One who has called you--you also must be holy in all your habits of life.


Cross References

Romans 12:2

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

Acts 17:30

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

1 Peter 4:2-3

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

Romans 6:4

Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

Ephesians 2:2

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.

Ephesians 4:18-22

with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.

Colossians 3:5-7

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

Titus 3:3-5

For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

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