1 Peter 2:1

Therefore, cease ye from all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envy, and backbiting.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And be like infant children; and crave the word, as being the pure spiritual milk by which ye are nourished up to life;

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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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