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

But you people are especially chosen [by God]; you are a royal body of priests; you are a nation especially set apart for God's use; you are a people who belong exclusively to God, that you may express the virtues of the One who called you out of darkness [i.e., of sin and error], and into His marvelous light [i.e., righteousness and truth].

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

[For] He neither sinned nor used deceitful words.

who, when reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he used no menaces; but referred himself to him who judgeth righteously:

For in the [same] way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves [by] being subject to their own husbands,

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

Now, those people you used to run around with cannot understand why you have stopped living such wasteful lives, so they just "badmouth" you.

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

Just as each one has received a gift, [use] it for serving one another, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.