1-Peter 2:1 Themes and Topics

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, Verse Concepts

Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. Verse Concepts

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, Verse Concepts

Do not let us grow vain, and provoke or envy one another. Verse Concepts

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

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

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

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, Verse Concepts

And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a very world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of the Pit. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

Remind your hearers to respect and obey the Powers that be, to be ready for every kind of good work, to speak ill of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be forbearing, and under all circumstances to show a gentle spirit in dealing with others, whoever they may be.

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

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

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, Verse Concepts

And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a very world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of the Pit. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

Remind your hearers to respect and obey the Powers that be, to be ready for every kind of good work, to speak ill of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be forbearing, and under all circumstances to show a gentle spirit in dealing with others, whoever they may be.

For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the Day of Jesus Christ. Verse Concepts

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face, and make good any deficiency in your faith. Verse Concepts

He fails to maintain union with the Head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and Keynesian of every part, grows with a divine growth. Verse Concepts

and advance in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All glory be to him now and for ever. Verse Concepts

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Brothers, it is our duty always to thank God about you, as is but right, considering the wonderful growth of your faith, and because, without exception, your love for one another is continually increasing. Verse Concepts

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And what I pray for is this--that your love may grow yet stronger and stronger, with increasing knowledge and all discernment, Until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the Day of Christ, Bearing a rich harvest of that righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus. read more.
Let all of us, then, whose faith is mature, think thus. Then, if on any matter you think otherwise, God will make that also plain to you.

Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and your characters will grow through a fuller knowledge of God; You will be made strong at all points with a strength worthy of the power manifested in his Glory--strong to endure with patience, and even with gladness, whatever may befall you;

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, Verse Concepts

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Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, Verse Concepts

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

You, however, must now lay aside all such things--anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

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