1 Peter 2:1

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1 Peter 2:1

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Summary

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

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,

Laying

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, "Get out!"

Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!

Malice

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves.

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Guile

He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth.

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

How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the Lord does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!"

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

and no lie was found on their lips; they are blameless.

Hypocrisies

The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

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

and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!"

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

Envies

This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, "They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?"

By David. Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed! Do not envy evildoers!

For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

All evil

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

Likewise also their wives must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

General references

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."