1 Peter 1:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὡς τέκνα ὑπακοῆς, μὴ συσχηματιζόμενοι ταῖς πρότερον ἐν τῇ ἀγνοίᾳ ὑμῶν ἐπιθυμίαις:

Transliteration

As tekna of hypakoēs, not syschēmatizomenoi to the formerly in the agnoia of you epithymiais:

Grammar Details

• *tekna*: nominative, neuter, plural - predicate nominative
• *hypakoēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - quality/character
• *syschēmatizomenoi*: present, middle/passive, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - prohibitive command
• *agnoia*: dative, feminine, singular - sphere/state
• *epithymiais*: dative, feminine, plural - reference/indirect object

Word Meanings

• *tekna*: children/offspring/descendants
• *hypakoēs*: obedience/submission/compliance
• *syschēmatizomenoi*: conforming/adapting/being shaped according to
• *agnoia*: ignorance/unawareness/lack of knowledge
• *epithymiais*: desires/lusts/cravings

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
• 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past {G979} may suffice {G2254} to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
• Acts 17:30 : 30 {G3303} The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:
• Eph 4:18-22 : 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; 19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye did not so learn Christ; 21 if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Col 3:5-7 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: 7 wherein {G1722} ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;
• 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
• Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
• Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
• Rom 6:4 : 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;