1 Peter 2:1

Chosen As Living Stones

¹ Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, ² like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain Salvation--

Lay Aside

Laying Aside All Malice

Once for All

Put Off

Put Aside

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice.

James 1:21

Therefore, have done with all filthiness and whatever wickedness still remains, and in a humble spirit receive that Message which has been planted in your hearts and is able to save your souls.

James 4:11

Do not disparage one another, Brothers. He who disparages his Brother, or passes judgment on his Brother, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.

Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's.

Matthew 23:28

It is the same with you. Outwardly, and to others, you have the look of religious men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin.

Matthew 24:51

And will flog him severely, and assign him his place among the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

Mark 12:15

Should we pay, or should we not pay?" Knowing their hypocrisy, Jesus said to them: "Why are you testing me? Bring me a florin to look at."

Luke 6:42

How can you say to your brother 'Brother, let me take out the straw in your eye,' while you yourself do not see the beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw in your brother's.

Luke 11:44

Alas for you! You are like unsuspected graves, over which men walk unawares."

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!"

Romans 1:29

They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice.

Romans 13:12-13

The night is almost gone; the day is near. Therefore let us have done with the deeds of Darkness, and arm ourselves with the weapons of Light.

1 Corinthians 3:2-3

I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you were not then able to take it. No, and even now you are not able; you are still worldly.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.

Galatians 5:21-26

Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:22-25

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

Colossians 3:5-8

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

Our appeal to you was not based on a delusion, nor was it made from unworthy motives, or with any intention of misleading you.

1 Timothy 3:11

It should be the same with the women. They should be serious, not gossips, sober, and trustworthy in all respects.

Titus 2:3

So, too, that the older women should be reverent in their demeanor, and that they should avoid scandal, and beware of becoming slaves to drink;

Titus 3:3-5

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Hebrews 12:1

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

James 3:14

But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the Truth.

James 3:16-17

For, where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of base actions.

James 4:5

Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of Scripture which asks--'Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?'

James 5:9

Do not make complaints against one another, Brothers, or judgment will be passed upon you. The Judge is already standing at the door!

1 Peter 1:18-25

For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,

1 Peter 2:16

Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.

1 Peter 2:22

He 'never sinned, nor was anything deceitful ever heard from his lips.'

1 Peter 3:10

'He who would enjoy life And see happy days-- let him keep his tongue from evil And his lips from deceitful words,

1 Peter 4:2

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

1 Peter 4:4

And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.

Revelation 14:5

'No lie was ever heard upon their lips.' They are beyond reach of blame.

Matthew 15:7

Hypocrites! It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you--