As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance — the designator 'obedient children' (tekna hypakoēs) redefines believers' primary identity through their allegiance to Christ rather than their ethnic or social heritage. The prohibition against conforming (syschēmatizō, shaping oneself according to) to former desires (epithymiai ponērai) assumes a decisive break with pre-Christian existence, characterized as ignorance (agnoia) of God.

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