1 Peter 2:1

Chosen As Living Stones

¹ Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, ² Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.

Lay Aside

Laying Aside All Malice

Once for All

Put Off

Put Aside

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice.

James 1:21

Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.

James 4:11

Brothers, do not speak against each other. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Psalm 37:1

([Psalm of David]) Do not be bothered by evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things.

1 Samuel 18:8-9

Saul became very angry because he considered this saying to be insulting. He said: To David they credit tens of thousands but to me they credit only a few thousand. The only thing left for David is my kingdom.

Job 36:13

The godless in heart harbor resentment. Even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.

Psalm 32:2

Blessed is the person whom Jehovah no longer accuses of sin and who has no deceitful thoughts.

Psalm 34:13

Keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from deceit.

Psalm 73:3

I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.

Proverbs 3:31

Do not be jealous of violent people or decide to act as they do.

Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).

Proverbs 24:1

Do not be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Proverbs 24:19

Do not worry about evil people. Do not envy the wicked!

Isaiah 2:20

That day people will throw their silver and gold idols, that they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and the bats.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will dishonor your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered statues. You will throw them away like clothing ruined by stains. You will say to them: Get out!

Ezekiel 18:31-32

Give up all the evil you have been doing. Get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye. Then you can see to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Matthew 23:28

You appear righteous to men. However, inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Matthew 24:51

He will punish him severely, and send him to be with the hypocrites. There they will cry and grind their teeth.

Mark 12:15

Should we pay or should we not pay? Knowing their hypocrisy he said to them: Why do you test me? Show me a denarius.

Luke 6:42

How can you say to your brother: 'Let me remove the speck in your eye when you do not notice the beam in your own eye?' You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye. Then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! You are as the tombs that do not appear and men walk over them and do not know it.

Luke 12:1

Thousands of people in the crowd were gathered together so much that they bumped into one another. He said to his disciples: First of all, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him. He said: Look an Israelite indeed. There is no deceit in him!

Romans 1:29

They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

Romans 13:12-13

The night is far along and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

1 Corinthians 3:2-3

I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us celebrate 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

Brothers, do not be like children in understanding. When it comes to evil be innocent children but in your thinking be mature adults.

2 Corinthians 12:20

I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

Galatians 5:21-26

envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:22-25

You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.

Colossians 3:5-8

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our presentation (exhortation) is not based on error, or of uncleanness, or in deceit.

1 Timothy 3:11

Women in like manner must be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3

Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine.

Titus 3:3-5

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Hebrews 12:1

A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

James 3:14

If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.

James 3:16-17

For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

James 4:5

Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart (mental disposition) that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?

James 5:9

Do not complain (utter a deep sigh) against one another, that you not be judged. Behold, the judge is standing at the door.

1 Peter 1:18-25

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:16

Be free, and yet do not use your freedom for a covering for evil, but as servants of God.

1 Peter 2:22

He committed no sin and deception was not found in him.

1 Peter 3:10

Whoever would love life and see good days should keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

1 Peter 4:2

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

1 Peter 4:4

They think it strange that you do not run with them in wild and reckless living and they speak evil about you.

Revelation 14:5

No falsehood (lie) (deceit) was found in their mouth, for they are without fault.

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites (liars)! Isaiah's prophecy was right about you.