What Does 1 Peter 1:14 Mean in the King James?
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Your former desires are a pattern born of not seeing, while your identity is named as one who hears and responds.
THE MEANING
You are addressed as a child whose defining posture is responsive hearing. The desires that once patterned you belong to an unseeing state; they do not have to define your present shape.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse dissolves the belief that old cravings reveal your fixed nature: they belong to a former unseeing pattern, not the identity named here.
THE ROOT
συσχηματιζόμενοι
syschēmatizomenoi
GROWS FROM
σχῆμα
schēma
form, shape, or pattern
The verb for fashioning grows from σχῆμα, the form something takes. The verse reaches beyond isolated actions to the pattern that gives them shape.
ALSO GROWS
syschēmatizō: to take the same form; conform oneself
συσχηματίζω
This is the verb used for fashioning oneself according to a pattern.
metaschēmatizō: to change or transform outward form
μετασχηματίζω
This related verb makes the shared image of form and reshaping visible.
ἀγνοίᾳ
agnoia
GROWS FROM
νοέω
noeō
perceive or apprehend with the mind
The word for ignorance carries the sense of failing to perceive or understand. The verse links former desire with an unseeing state, showing how perception and longing can shape one another.
ALSO GROWS
agnoeō: to fail to perceive or understand
ἀγνοέω
This verb expresses the privative sense present in the word for ignorance.
nous: mind, understanding
νοῦς
This related word points to the faculty of perception that ignorance lacks or obscures.
ὑπακοῆς
hypakoēs
GROWS FROM
ἀκούω
akouō
hear
“obedient” in this verse is hypakoēs. The phrase calls these ‘children of obedience,’ using a word from the family of hearing. The Greek carries the sense of hearing that responds, so identity is pictured as responsive listening.
ALSO GROWS
hypakouō: to hear and heed; obey
ὑπακούω
This verb expresses the responsive hearing contained in the word for obedience.
akoē: hearing; report
ἀκοή
This related noun keeps the sound of hearing audible beneath ‘obedient.’
THE PATTERN
Desire can become a shaping pattern when perception is narrowed, while renewed perception opens a different form of life.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;THE THREAD
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.Peter’s ‘fashioning yourselves’ and Romans’ ‘be not conformed’ use the same Greek verb, συσχηματίζω. Peter names former desires within ignorance as a shaping pattern; Romans names the world’s pattern and pairs its refusal with renewal of the mind.
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