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14 Don’t be conformed to your former desires, those that shaped you when you were ignorant. But, as obedient children, 15 you must be holy in every aspect of your lives, just as the one who called you is holy. 16 It is written, You will be holy, because I am holy.[a]

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14 Like obedient children, do not comply with[a] the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,[b] 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written, “You shall be holy, because I am holy.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:14 tn Or “do not be conformed to”; Grk “not being conformed to.”
  2. 1 Peter 1:14 tn Grk “the former lusts in your ignorance.”
  3. 1 Peter 1:16 sn A quotation from Lev 19:2.