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

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Eph. 4:22,31• ²²namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
³¹Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice; (Eph. 4:22,31)

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1-3: He exhorts them from the breach of charity;

4-10: shewing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built.

11-12: He beseeches them also to abstain from fleshly lusts;

13-17: to be obedient to magistrates;

18-19: and teaches servants how to obey their masters;

20-25: patiently suffering for well doing, after the example of Christ.

Wherefore.

1 Peter 1:18‑25• ¹⁸knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,
¹⁹but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ,
²⁰foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,
²¹who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God.
²²Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;
²³being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God.
²⁴Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen;
²⁵but the word of the Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings is preached to you. (1 Peter 1:18‑25)

laying.

1 Peter 4:2• ²no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will. (1 Peter 4:2)

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Isa. 2:20• ²⁰In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isa. 2:20)

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Isa. 30:22• ²²And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it. (Isa. 30:22)

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Ezek. 18:31‑32• ³¹Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?
³²For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn ye and live. (Ezek. 18:31‑32)

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Rom. 13:12• ¹²The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Rom. 13:12)

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Eph. 4:22‑25• ²²namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
²³and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;
²⁴and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.
²⁵Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:22‑25)

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Col. 3:5‑8• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
⁶On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
⁷In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things.
⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:5‑8)

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Heb. 12:1• ¹Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us, (Heb. 12:1)

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James 1:21• ²¹Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (James 1:21)

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James 5:9• ⁹Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door. (James 5:9)

malice.

1 Peter 2:16• ¹⁶as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen. (1 Peter 2:16)

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1 Cor. 5:8• ⁸so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:8)

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1 Cor. 14:20• ²⁰Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men. (1 Cor. 14:20)

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Eph. 4:31• ³¹Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice; (Eph. 4:31)

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Titus 3:3‑5• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
⁴But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
⁵not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (Titus 3:3‑5)

guile.

1 Peter 2:22• ²²who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; (1 Peter 2:22)

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1 Peter 3:10• ¹⁰For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile. (1 Peter 3:10)

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Psa. 32:2• ²Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah reckoneth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile! (Psa. 32:2)

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Psa. 34:13• ¹³Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile; (Psa. 34:13)

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John 1:47• ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile. (John 1:47)

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1 Thess. 2:3• ³For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile; (1 Thess. 2:3)

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Rev. 14:5• ⁵and in their mouths was no lie found; for they are blameless. (Rev. 14:5)

hypocrisies.

Job 36:13• ¹³But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them: (Job 36:13)

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Matt. 7:5• ⁵Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother. (Matt. 7:5)

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Matt. 15:7• ⁷Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying, (Matt. 15:7)

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Matt. 23:28• ²⁸Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matt. 23:28)

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Matt. 24:51• ⁵¹and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:51)

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Mark 12:15• ¹⁵Should we give, or should we not give? But he knowing their hypocrisy said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see it. (Mark 12:15)

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Luke 6:42• ⁴²or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, allow me, I will cast out the mote that is in thine eye, thyself not seeing the beam that is in thine eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou shalt see clear to cast out the mote which is in the eye of thy brother. (Luke 6:42)

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Luke 11:44• ⁴⁴Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know it. (Luke 11:44)

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Luke 12:1• ¹In those times, the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; (Luke 12:1)

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James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned. (James 3:17)

envies.

1 Sam. 18:8‑9• ⁸And Saul was very wroth, and that saying was evil in his sight; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed the thousands; and what is there more for him but the kingdom?
⁹And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. (1 Sam. 18:8‑9)

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Psa. 37:1• ¹A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work unrighteousness; (Psa. 37:1)

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Psa. 73:3• ³For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked. (Psa. 73:3)

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Prov. 3:31• ³¹Envy not the man of violence, and choose none of his ways. (Prov. 3:31)

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Prov. 14:30• ³⁰A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones. (Prov. 14:30)

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Prov. 24:1,19• ¹Be not thou envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;
¹⁹Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of the wicked: (Prov. 24:1,19)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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Rom. 13:13• ¹³As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation. (Rom. 13:13)

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1 Cor. 3:2‑3• ²I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;
³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? (1 Cor. 3:2‑3)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:21‑26• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,
²³meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.
²⁴But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.
²⁶Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:21‑26)

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James 3:14,16• ¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing. (James 3:14,16)

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James 4:5• ⁵Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? (James 4:5)

all evils.

1 Peter 4:4• ⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you; (1 Peter 4:4)

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Eph. 4:31• ³¹Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice; (Eph. 4:31)

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Col. 3:8• ⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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Titus 2:3• ³that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right; (Titus 2:3)

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James 4:11• ¹¹Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not doer of the law, but judge. (James 4:11)

• Bear in mind the force of the opening word; which means an act done once for all, as the aorist implies, the tense of what may be called factness, not of gradual process. (“1 Peter 2:1-3” by W. Kelly)

• Every kind of malice is unworthy of those born again, born of God Who is love; for it may hide its spirit of hatred, and assume many a disguise to accomplish its nefarious ends. (“1 Peter 2:1-3” by W. Kelly)

• "Guile" naturally succeeds "malice" in order to do the man deadly mischief, and withal escape detection. (“1 Peter 2:1-3” by W. Kelly)

• Hypocrisy has its spring in claiming to have the good we lack, envy seeks to deny and defame the real good of others. (“1 Peter 2:1-3” by W. Kelly)

• Lastly, and fittingly therefore, comes the warning against "all evil speakings," for what a variety of shapes this wears! And how readily it cheats many a one under the plea of care for the Lord's honor and just censure of what is wrong? (“1 Peter 2:1-3” by W. Kelly)

• "Laying aside all malice ... desire the sincere milk of the word" (1 Peter 2:1, 2), is like plowing the ground before you put the seed in. (“Hunt’s Sayings - 3” by R. Hunt)

• Malice, envy and evil speakings specially concern our relations with our fellows, and they are particularly mentioned because Peter is now going to bring before us truth which shows us the believer in intimate relation with all his fellow-believers. (“1 Peter 2” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Putting away therefore all malicea and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil-speakings,

WK Translation Notes

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The word "malice" seems better than "wickedness" of the T. R. It is allowed that the latter more general term may be well in such texts as {vi 27199}{/vi}.