1 Peter 2:1

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1 Peter 2:1

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1 Peter 2:1

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Wherefore

1 Peter 1:18

Laying

Malice

Titus 3:3

Guile

Revelation 14:5

Hypocrisies

Envies

All evil

General references

John 10:5

Bible References

Wherefore

knowing that you were not

redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

Laying

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,

And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”

Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to

immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing

right at the door.

Malice

Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Guile

who

committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth;

For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord

does not impute iniquity,

And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;

And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.

Hypocrisies

“But the godless in heart lay up anger;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you:

So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Shall we pay or shall we not pay?” But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

Envies

Then Saul became very angry, for this saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?”

A Psalm of David.

Do not fret because of evildoers,

Be not envious toward wrongdoers.

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Do not envy a man of violence

And do not choose any of his ways.

A tranquil heart is life to the body,
But passion is rottenness to the bones.

Do not be envious of evil men,
Nor desire to be with them;

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

Let us

behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

All evil

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.

Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

General references

A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”