1 Peter 2 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

Library Home>1 Peter 2 (KJV)

Go

Verse 2

Articles on

1 Peter 2

1 Peter 2:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

+

1

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

h

Eph. 4:22,31• ²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: (Eph. 4:22,31)

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+

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• ¹⁸Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
¹⁹But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
²⁰Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
²¹Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
²⁴For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
²⁵But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (1 Peter 1:18‑25)

laying.

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

;

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

;

Isa. 30:22• ²²Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. (Isa. 30:22)

;

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

;

Rom. 13:12• ¹²The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. (Rom. 13:12)

;

Eph. 4:22‑25• ²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:22‑25)

;

Col. 3:5‑8• ⁵Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
⁶For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
⁷In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. (Col. 3:5‑8)

;

Heb. 12:1• ¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (Heb. 12:1)

;

James 1:21• ²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. (James 1:21)

;

James 5:9• ⁹Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. (James 5:9)

malice.

1 Peter 2:16• ¹⁶As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. (1 Peter 2:16)

;

1 Cor. 5:8• ⁸Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:8)

;

1 Cor. 14:20• ²⁰Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. (1 Cor. 14:20)

;

Eph. 4:31• ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: (Eph. 4:31)

;

Titus 3:3‑5• ³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
⁴But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
⁵Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; (Titus 3:3‑5)

guile.

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

;

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

;

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

;

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

;

John 1:47• ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! (John 1:47)

;

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

;

Rev. 14:5• ⁵And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. (Rev. 14:5)

hypocrisies.

Job 36:13• ¹³But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. (Job 36:13)

;

Matt. 7:5• ⁵Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. (Matt. 7:5)

;

Matt. 15:7• ⁷Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, (Matt. 15:7)

;

Matt. 23:28• ²⁸Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matt. 23:28)

;

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

;

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

;

Luke 6:42• ⁴²Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. (Luke 6:42)

;

Luke 11:44• ⁴⁴Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. (Luke 11:44)

;

Luke 12:1• ¹In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)

;

James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. (James 3:17)

envies.

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

;

Psa. 37:1• ¹<<A Psalm of David.>> Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. (Psa. 37:1)

;

Psa. 73:3• ³For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. (Psa. 73:3)

;

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

;

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

;

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

;

Rom. 1:29• ²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

;

Rom. 13:13• ¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (Rom. 13:13)

;

1 Cor. 3:2‑3• ²I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
³For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (1 Cor. 3:2‑3)

;

2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: (2 Cor. 12:20)

;

Gal. 5:21‑26• ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
²⁴And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:21‑26)

;

James 3:14,16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:14,16)

;

James 4:5• ⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? (James 4:5)

all evils.

1 Peter 4:4• ⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: (1 Peter 4:4)

;

Eph. 4:31• ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: (Eph. 4:31)

;

Col. 3:8• ⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

;

1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

;

Titus 2:3• ³The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; (Titus 2:3)

;

James 4:11• ¹¹Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a 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

+

1

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

W. Kelly Translation

+

1

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

WK Translation Notes

+

a

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}.