Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Wherefore

1 Peter 1:18
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain course of life received by tradition from your fathers;

Laying

1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 30:22
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Be gone from me.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Romans 13:12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 5:9
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Malice

1 Peter 2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Guile

1 Peter 2:22
Who committed no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Psalm 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Psalm 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation was not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile;
Revelation 14:5
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

Hypocrisies

Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Matthew 7:5
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew 15:7
Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Matthew 23:28
Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 24:51
And will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mark 12:15
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
Luke 6:42
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thy eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Luke 11:44
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
Luke 12:1
In the mean time, when there was gathered an innumerable multitude of people, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Envies

1 Samuel 18:8
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; and what can he have more but the kingdom?
Psalm 37:1
A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalm 73:3
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Proverbs 3:31
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 24:1
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

All evil

1 Peter 4:4
In which they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
James 4:11
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

General references

John 10:5
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.