As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
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Gill's Exposition
As obedient children,.... Or "children of obedience". This may be connected either with what goes before, that seeing they were children of God, by adopting grace, and in regeneration brought to the…
Barnes' Notes
As obedient children - That is, conduct yourselves as becomes the children of God, by obeying his commands; by submitting to His will; and by manifesting unwavering confidence in him as your Father at…
Adam Clarke
Not fashioning yourselves - As the offices of certain persons are known by the garb or livery they wear, so are transgressors: where we see the world's livery we see the world's servants; they fashion…
Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not…
Cambridge Bible
as obedient children Literally, children of obedience. The phrase is more or less a Hebraism, like "children of wrath," Eph 2:3, or the more closely parallel "children of disobedience" in Eph 5:6. The…
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