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14 Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance[a] 15 but, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct,(A) 16 for it is written, “Be holy because I [am] holy.”(B)

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  1. 1:14–16 The ignorance here referred to (1 Pt 1:14) was their former lack of knowledge of God, leading inevitably to godless conduct. Holiness (1 Pt 1:15–16), on the contrary, is the result of their call to the knowledge and love of God.

14 As obedient(A) children, do not conform(B) to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.(C) 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;(D) 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a](E)

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  1. 1 Peter 1:16 Lev. 11:44,45; 19:2