obedient children] Gr. children of obedience. not fashioning] Gr. not fashioned. Herein S. Peter may seem to allude to those things which receive their figure, form, or shape from a mould, and is as if he had said, Let not your lives or conversations be formed or moulded according to your former lusts; see Romans 12:2. The same is imported, when men are said to walk after their lusts, making their lusts their Captains or Leaders. See Ephesians 2:3. and Ephesians 4:22. 2 Timothy 3:6. Titus 3:3. 2 Peter 3:3. Jude 1:18. former lusts] Ephesians 4:22. ignorance] Ephesians 4:18. Acts 17:30. That is, before ye were called to the knowledge of the truth.