As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Parallel translations
- WEB as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
- BSB As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former 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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Quick answer
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 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
- Titus 3:3–5For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- 1 Pet 4:2–3That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
- Eph 2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
- 1 Th 4:5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
- Col 3:5–7Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- Eph 4:18–22Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
- Acts 17:30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
- Rom 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
- Eph 5:6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
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