Bible Strands
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Peter addresses scattered believers in Asia Minor, sandwiched between a call to sober readiness (v. 13) and the positive command to be holy (v. 15).
The words — συσχηματίζεσθαι (suschēmatizesthai), "fashioning yourselves," is active: the prefix συν- ("with, together") joins to σχῆμα ("form, pattern"), making the verb "shaping yourselves to" rather than passively being shaped by.
The thread — The same logic appears in Romans 12:2 (not conformed to the world), Titus 3:3 (slaved to desires and pleasures), and 1 Peter 4:2 (not living for human passions but for God's will).
Why it lands — The command is negative and specific: stop the particular desires that defined your pre-conversion life, not some generic list of sins. Obedience here means refusing to keep doing what you already know how to do.
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The Greek words
King James Version
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Cross-references
- Romans 12:2 Do 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 For 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 Peter 4:2 Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
- Ephesians 2:2 in 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 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- Ephesians 4:18 They 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 17:30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Romans 6:4 We 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.
- Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.