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1 Peter 2:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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• ²²that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit,
³¹Let all bitterness and passion and wrath and clamour and evil-speaking 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 not by corruptibles, silver or gold, ye were redeemed, from your vain course ancestrally handed down,
¹⁹but by precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
²⁰foreknown indeed before [the] world's foundation, but manifested at [the] last of the times for your sake,
²¹that through him believe on God that raised him out of [the] dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God,
²²purified your souls as ye have in your obedience to the truth unto brotherly affection unfeigned, love one another out of a pure heart fervently,
²³having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through God's living and abiding word.
²⁴Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as a flower of grass. The grass withered and the flower fell away,
²⁵but the word of [the] Lord abideth forever. And this is the word that as glad tidings was preached unto you. (1 Peter 1:18‑25)

laying.

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

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Isa. 2:20• (Isa. 2:20)

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Isa. 30:22• (Isa. 30:22)

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Ezek. 18:31‑32• (Ezek. 18:31‑32)

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

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Eph. 4:22‑25• ²²that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit,
²³and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
²⁴and put on the new man, that according to God was created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
²⁵Wherefore having put off falsehood, speak truth each with his neighbour, for we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:22‑25)

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Col. 3:5‑8• ⁵Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
⁶on account of which things cometh the wrath of God [upon the sons of disobedience]:
⁷in which ye also once walked when ye lived in these things.
⁸But now do ye also put off the whole: wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:5‑8)

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Heb. 12:1• ¹Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the readily besetting sin, run with endurance the race that is set before us, (Heb. 12:1)

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James 1:21• ²¹Wherefore, having laid aside every sort of filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls. (James 1:21)

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

malice.

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

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1 Cor. 5:8• ⁸Wherefore let us keep 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 mind, but in malice be infantine, but in mind be of full age. (1 Cor. 14:20)

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Eph. 4:31• ³¹Let all bitterness and passion and wrath and clamour and evil-speaking be removed from you with all malice; (Eph. 4:31)

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Titus 3:3‑5• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another.
⁴But when the kindness and the love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
⁵not by works in righteousness which we ourselves did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing 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 stop his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile; (1 Peter 3:10)

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Psa. 32:2• (Psa. 32:2)

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Psa. 34:13• (Psa. 34:13)

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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)

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

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Rev. 14:5• ⁵and in their mouth was found no falsehood; [for] they are blameless. (Rev. 14:5)

hypocrisies.

Job 36:13• (Job 36:13)

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

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

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

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Matt. 24:51• ⁵¹and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him 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? {i}But he{/i} knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a penny that I may see [it]. (Mark 12:15)

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Luke 6:42• ⁴²For 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 clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. (Luke 6:42)

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Luke 11:44• ⁴⁴Woe unto you, [scribes, and Pharisees, hypocrites] 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• ¹{i}In 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;{/i} (Luke 12:1)

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James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, uncontentious, impartial. (James 3:17)

envies.

1 Sam. 18:8‑9• (1 Sam. 18:8‑9)

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Psa. 37:1• (Psa. 37:1)

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Psa. 73:3• (Psa. 73:3)

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Prov. 3:31• (Prov. 3:31)

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Prov. 14:30• (Prov. 14:30)

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Prov. 24:1,19• (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, ill-will; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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Rom. 13:13• ¹³As in daylight, let us walk becomingly, not in revels and drunkenness, not in chambering and indecency, not in strife and envy; (Rom. 13:13)

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1 Cor. 3:2‑3• ²With milk I gave you drink, not meat; for ye were not yet able, nor indeed are ye now able,
³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas emulation and strife [are] among you, 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 by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:21‑26• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control:
²³against such things there is no law.
²⁴But they that are of Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and its lusts.
²⁵If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
²⁶Let us not become vainglorious, 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 faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed. (James 3:14,16)

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James 4:5• ⁵Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy? (James 4:5)

all evils.

1 Peter 4:4• ⁴wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously, (1 Peter 4:4)

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Eph. 4:31• ³¹Let all bitterness and passion and wrath and clamour and evil-speaking be removed from you with all malice; (Eph. 4:31)

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Col. 3:8• ⁸But now do ye also put off the whole: wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹Women likewise [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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Titus 2:3• ³that aged women likewise be in deportment reverent, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good; (Titus 2:3)

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James 4:11• ¹¹Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against law and judgeth law; but if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of 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

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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}.