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1 Peter 1:14-17

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1:14 Like obedient children, do not comply with 1  the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, 2  1:15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 1:16 for it is written, “You shall be holy, because I am holy.” 3  1:17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here 4  in reverence.

1 tn Or “do not be conformed to”; Grk “not being conformed to.”

2 tn Grk “the former lusts in your ignorance.”

3 sn A quotation from Lev 19:2.

4 tn Grk “the time of your sojourn,” picturing the Christian’s life in this world as a temporary stay in a foreign country (cf. 1:1).



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