1 Peter 2:1

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all backbiting,

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

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2like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow until you attain salvation –

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Cross References

Psalms 32:2Happy are those, free from falseness of spirit, to whom the Lord reckons no debt of guilt.

Psalms 37:1Be not kindled to wrath at the wicked, nor envious of those who work wrong;

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:1

The general exhortation to holiness is continued, and enforced by several reasons taken from the foundation on which Christians are built, Jesus Christ, and from their spiritual blessings and privileges in him. The means of obtaining it, the word of God, is recommended, and all contrary qualities are condemned, ver. 1-12 . Particular directions are given how subjects ought to obey the magistrates, and servants their masters, patiently suffering in well doing, in imitation of Christ, ver. 13, to the end . Read the whole commentary →

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