So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Davidic.Do not be agitated by evildoers;
do not envy those who do wrong.

Saul was furious and resented this song. “They credited tens of thousands to David,” he complained, “but they only credited me with thousands. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

How joyful is the man
the Lord does not charge with sin
and in whose spirit is no deceit!

Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.

For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Don’t envy a violent man
or choose any of his ways;

A tranquil heart is life to the body,
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.

Don’t envy evil men
or desire to be with them,

Don’t be agitated by evildoers,
and don’t envy the wicked.

On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Should we pay, or should we not pay?”

But knowing their hypocrisy, He 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 don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.

“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,

Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

For our exhortation didn’t come from error or impurity or an intent to deceive.

Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.

In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?

Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

He did not commit sin,
and no deceit was found in His mouth;

For the one who wants to love life
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.

No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:

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Wherefore

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

Laying

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?
The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!

Malice

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.
Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Guile

He did not commit sin,
and no deceit was found in His mouth;
For the one who wants to love life
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,
How joyful is the man
the Lord does not charge with sin
and in whose spirit is no deceit!
Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.
Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”
For our exhortation didn’t come from error or impurity or an intent to deceive.
No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

Hypocrisies

Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.
Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:
In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Should we pay, or should we not pay?”

But knowing their hypocrisy, He 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 don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.
“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”
In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

Envies

Saul was furious and resented this song. “They credited tens of thousands to David,” he complained, “but they only credited me with thousands. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
Davidic.Do not be agitated by evildoers;
do not envy those who do wrong.
For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Don’t envy a violent man
or choose any of his ways;
A tranquil heart is life to the body,
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.
Don’t envy evil men
or desire to be with them,
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.
Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?

All evil

So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.
All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.
But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.
In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

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They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

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