1 Peter 2:1

Chosen As Living Stones

¹ Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort. ² Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

Lay Aside

Laying Aside All Malice

Once for All

Put Off

Put Aside

Ephesians 4:31

Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice;

James 1:21

So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.

James 4:11

Do not be talking against each other, brothers. He who is talking against a brother and condemning his brothers is talking against the Law and condemning the Law. But if you are condemning the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

Matthew 7:5

"Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

Matthew 23:28

"Just so you also outwardly appear to men, just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Matthew 24:51

and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Mark 12:15

Shall we pay, or not pay?" But he, knowing well their hypocrisy, said to them. "Why are you testing me? Bring me a dollar for me to look at."

Luke 6:42

"Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother's eye.

Luke 11:44

"Woe unto you! for you are like the tombs which are hidden, and men walk over them unsuspecting."

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile when myriads of the multitudes were thronging around him so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples, first of all. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee, which is hypocrisy.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

Romans 1:29

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

Romans 13:12-13

The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light.

1 Corinthians 3:2-3

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

1 Corinthians 5:8

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

Galatians 5:21-26

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:22-25

You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

Colossians 3:5-8

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

1 Timothy 3:11

Deaconesses likewise must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3

that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

Titus 3:3-5

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

Hebrews 12:1

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

James 3:16-17

For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

James 5:9

Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!

1 Peter 1:18-25

For you well know that not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were you redeemed from the emptiness of your manner of life, received by tradition from your ancestors;

1 Peter 2:16

Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

1 Peter 2:22

He committed no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth.

1 Peter 3:10

He who would love life and enjoy happy days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile;

1 Peter 4:2

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

1 Peter 4:4

They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

Revelation 14:5

No lie was ever found on their lips; they are spotless.

Matthew 15:7

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying.