Summary
There are different words that you can use for instead, of course, rather than or taking a different course or in lieu of, but notice that the substitutes for instead so often include more words. He says, like obedient children, and then he goes on, do not be conformed to the desires that you formally had in ignorance. So Peter is saying, don't be formed by those sinful desires, those sinful desires of thought and word and deed. We're to leave behind all of the sinful desires and thought and word and indeed, we are to be different. There's no in place of, there's no rather than, there's no fancy in lieu of, there's just, instead, instead. The world with all of the thoughts that also invade our mind, not simply because we're tempted by the world, but it's the sinful self within us.
Video citations
- "Instead" 9-25-22 — Would you open your Bibles please with me for our study today? To first Peter, the first chapter. If you're using a Pula Edition, you're going to find that on page 205 in the New Testament. Page…