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As obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:
[Live] as obedient children [of God]; do not be conformed to the evil desires which governed you in your ignorance [before you knew the requirements and transforming power of the good news regarding salvation].
[Live] as children of obedience [to God]; do not conform yourselves to the evil desires [that governed you] in your former ignorance [when you did not know the requirements of the Gospel].
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
Don’t be conformed to your former desires, those that shaped you when you were ignorant. But, as obedient children,
As people who obey God, do not let yourselves be shaped by the evil desires you used to have when you were still ignorant.
Behave like obedient children. Don't let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be.
as children of obedience, not conformed to [your] former lusts in your ignorance;
As children of obedience not being conformed to the former desires in-connection-with your ignorance,
As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:
In the past you did not have the understanding you have now, so you did the evil things you wanted to do. But now you are children of God, so you should obey him and not live the way you did before.
Obey God, like good children who obey their father. Before you knew the true message about Christ, you very much wanted to do bad things. But now you should not agree to live in that bad way.
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
·Now that you are [As; or Like] obedient ·children of God [L children] ·do not live as you did in the past. You did not understand, so you did the evil things you wanted [L do not be shaped by the desires/lusts of your former ignorance].
As obedient children, not fashioned yourselves unto the former lusts of your ignorance:
Because you are children who obey God, don’t live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn’t know any better.
Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
In the past you did not understand, so you did the evil things you wanted. But now you are children of God who obey. So do not live as you lived in the past.
As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.
So brace up your minds, and, as men who know what they are doing, rest the full weight of your hopes on the grace that will be yours when Jesus Christ reveals himself. Live as obedient children before God. Don’t let your character be moulded by the desires of your ignorant days, but be holy in every department of your lives, for the one who has called you is himself holy. The scripture says: ‘Be holy, for I am holy’.
as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
As obedient children, not being conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to in your ignorance,
Obey God because you are his children; don’t slip back into your old ways—doing evil because you knew no better.
So roll up your sleeves, get your head in the game, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy.”
As obedient children do not conduct yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance.
As children of obedience, do not be conformed to the desires you used to have in · your time of ignorance
Because you are children who obey God, don’t live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn’t know any better.
Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
Like obedient children, do not yield to the evil desires you had in your former ignorance.
Now that you are obedient children of God do not live as you did in the past. You did not understand, so you did the evil things you wanted.
Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,
You should obey your Father. You shouldn’t give in to evil desires. They controlled your life when you didn’t know any better.
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
Be like children who obey. Do not desire to sin like you used to when you did not know any better.
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.
as obedient children – not fashioning yourselves to your old lusts of ignorance,
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
As children of obedience, don’t be squashed into the shape of the passions you used to indulge when you were still in ignorance.
As Bnei Mishma’at (Children of Obedience 1:2), not conforming yourselves to your former ta’avot (lusts), when you lacked da’as (personal, saving knowledge),
As obedient children, do not conform yourselves to the former lusts of your ignorance.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.
Be like obedient children as you put aside the desires you used to pursue when you didn’t know better.
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
Be children who obey. Do not be like what you were before you knew Christ. Then you did anything you wanted to do.
as sons of obedience, not made like to the former desires of your unknowingness, [as sons of obedience, not together likened to the former desires of your ignorance,]
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
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