As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
Parallel translations
- WEB as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
- KJV As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- NKJV as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
- NASB As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
- NLT So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.
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As obedient children, believers must no longer be shaped by the sinful desires of their former ignorant way of life. Conversion means a decisive break with the old patterns of sin.
Overview
Peter calls believers 'children of obedience,' an identity that should govern their conduct. Their former lusts belonged to a time of 'ignorance'—life apart from the knowledge of God. Now enlightened by the gospel, they are to stop being conformed to those old desires, reflecting the transformation the new birth brings.
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- Rom 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Titus 3:3–5For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- 1 Pet 4:2–3Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
- Eph 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- 1 Th 4:5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- Col 3:5–7Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- Eph 4:18–22They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
- Acts 17:30Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Rom 6:4We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
- Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
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