1 Peter 2:1 “Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and…”

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

World English Bible

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

American Standard Version

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore, laying aside all maliciousnes, and all guile, and dissimulation, and enuie, and all euill speaking,

Darby Translation

Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

Young's Literal Translation

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

Bible in Basic English

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

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Cross references

“Wherefore”

1 Peter 1:18–25

1 Peter 1:18–25 · BSB

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

“laying”

James 1:21 Colossians 3:5–8 Ephesians 4:22–25 1 Peter 4:2 Hebrews 12:1 James 5:9

James 1:21 · BSB

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

Colossians 3:5–8 · BSB

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 4:22–25 · BSB

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

1 Peter 4:2 · BSB

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

Hebrews 12:1 · BSB

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

James 5:9 · BSB

Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!

“malice”

Ephesians 4:31 Titus 3:3–5 1 Corinthians 14:20 1 Peter 2:16 1 Corinthians 5:8

Ephesians 4:31 · BSB

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

Titus 3:3–5 · BSB

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

1 Corinthians 14:20 · BSB

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Peter 2:16 · BSB

Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

1 Corinthians 5:8 · BSB

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

“guile”

1 Peter 3:10 Psalm 34:13 1 Peter 2:22 Psalm 32:2 John 1:47 1 Thessalonians 2:3

1 Peter 3:10 · BSB

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

Psalm 34:13 · BSB

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

1 Peter 2:22 · BSB

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

Psalm 32:2 · BSB

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

John 1:47 · BSB

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

1 Thessalonians 2:3 · BSB

For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.

“hypocrisies”

Matthew 7:5 Matthew 23:28 Luke 6:42 Job 36:13 Luke 11:44 Matthew 24:51

Matthew 7:5 · BSB

You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 23:28 · BSB

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Luke 6:42 · BSB

How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove…

Job 36:13 · BSB

The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

Luke 11:44 · BSB

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”

Matthew 24:51 · BSB

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“envies”

Galatians 5:21–26 Psalm 37:1 Romans 1:29 Proverbs 3:31 Proverbs 24:1 2 Corinthians 12:20

Galatians 5:21–26 · BSB

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Psalm 37:1 · BSB

Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

Romans 1:29 · BSB

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Proverbs 3:31 · BSB

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

Proverbs 24:1 · BSB

Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;

2 Corinthians 12:20 · BSB

For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

“all evils”

James 4:11 1 Peter 4:4 1 Timothy 3:11 Titus 2:3 Colossians 3:8

James 4:11 · BSB

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

1 Peter 4:4 · BSB

Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.

1 Timothy 3:11 · BSB

In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3 · BSB

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

Colossians 3:8 · BSB

But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

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