Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Wherefore
Laying
Guile
Hypocrisies
Envies
General references
Bible References
Wherefore
1 Peter 1:18
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
Laying
1 Peter 4:2
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 30:22
You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 5:9
Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
Malice
1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Guile
1 Peter 2:22
who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."
1 Peter 3:10
For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalm 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
Revelation 14:5
In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
Hypocrisies
Job 36:13
"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.
Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Matthew 23:28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 24:51
and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
Mark 12:15
Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
Luke 6:42
Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
Luke 11:44
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."
Luke 12:1
Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Envies
1 Samuel 18:8
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?"
Psalm 37:1
Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
Psalm 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Proverbs 3:31
Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 14:30
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
Proverbs 24:1
Don't be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
Romans 13:13
Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
Galatians 5:21
envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
All evil
1 Peter 4:4
They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
Colossians 3:8
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
1 Timothy 3:11
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Titus 2:3
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
James 4:11
Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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.
General references
John 10:5
They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."