SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:14
como hijos obedientes, no conformndoos con los deseos que antes teníais estando en vuestra ignorancia;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:14
Verse 14. Not fashioning yourselves] As the offices of certain persons are known by the garb or livery they wear, so are transgressors: where we see the world's livery we see the world's servants; they fashion or habit themselves according to their lusts, and we may guess that they have a worldly mind by their conformity to worldly fashions.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. As obedient children , etc.] Or children of obedience. This may be connected either with what goes before, that seeing they were children of God, by adopting grace, and in regeneration brought to the obedience of faith, to whom the inheritance belonged, therefore they ought to continue hoping for it; or with what follows, that since they were manifestly the children of God by faith in. Christ Jesus, being begotten again to a lively hope, they ought to be followers of him, and imitate him in holiness and righteousness, and show themselves to be obedient ones to his Gospel and ordinances, as children ought to honour, and obey, and imitate their parents: not fashioning yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance . The phrase is much the same with that in ( Romans 12:2) be not conformed to this world; for to be conformed, or fashioned to the world, is to be fashioned to the lusts of it; and to be fashioned to the lusts of it is to indulge them, to make provision for them, to obey them, to live and walk in them; which should not be done by the children of God, and who profess themselves to be obedient ones to the Gospel, which teaches otherwise; and that because they are lusts, foolish, hurtful, and deceitful ones, ungodly ones; the lusts of the devil, as well as of the world, and of the flesh, and which war against the soul; and because they are former ones, which they served in a time of unregeneracy, and were now convinced and ashamed of, and therefore should no longer live to them; the time past of life being sufficient to have walked in them: and because they were lusts in ignorance, which they had indulged in a state of ignorance; not of Gentilism, though this might be the case of some, but of Judaism; when they knew not God, especially in Christ, and were ignorant of his righteousness, and of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, as committed against a law that was holy and spiritual; nor did they know Christ, and the way of salvation by him, but thought they ought to do many things contrary to his name; nor the work of the Spirit in regeneration, saying with Nicodemus, how can these things be? nor the true sense of the Scriptures, the sacred oracles, that were committed to them; much less the Gospel, which was hidden from them, and they were enemies to: but now it was otherwise with them; they were made light in the Lord, and had knowledge of all these things; and therefore, as their light increased, and the grace of God, bringing salvation, appeared unto them, and shone out on then, it became them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and not to walk as they had done before, since they had not so learned Christ.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-16 - As the traveller, the racer, the warrior, and the labourer, gathered in their long and loose garments, that they might be ready in their business, so let Christians do by their minds and affections. Be sober be watchful against all spiritual dangers and enemies, and be temperat in all behaviour. Be sober-minded in opinion, as well as in practice and humble in your judgment of yourselves. A strong and perfect trus in the grace of God, is agreeable with best endeavours in our duty Holiness is the desire and duty of every Christian. It must be in all affairs, in every condition, and towards all people. We must especiall watch and pray against the sins to which we are inclined. The writte word of God is the surest rule of a Christian's life, and by this rul we are commanded to be holy every way. God makes those holy whom he saves.
Greek Textus Receptus
ως 5613 τεκνα 5043 υπακοης 5218 μη 3361 συσχηματιζομενοι 4964 5730 ταις 3588 προτερον 4386 εν 1722 τη 3588 αγνοια 52 υμων 5216 επιθυμιαις 1939
Vincent's NT Word Studies
14. Obedient children (tekna upakohv). Literally, and more correctly, as Rev., children of obedience. See on Mark iii. 17. The Christian is represented as related to the motive principle of his life as a child to a parent.
Fashioning yourselves (suschmatizomenoi). See on Matt. xvii. 2; and compare Rom. xii. 2, the only other passage where the word occurs. As schma is the outward, changeable fashion, as contrasted with what is intrinsic, the word really carries a warning against conformity to something changeful, and therefore illusory.
