1 Peter 2:1

Therefore put ye away all malice, and all guile, and feignings [or simulations], and envies, and all backbitings [or all detractions];

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2as now born young children, reasonable, without guile, covet ye (the) milk [of full teaching], that in it ye wax into health (or so that by it ye grow in your salvation);

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Cross References

1 Samuel 18:8And Saul was wroth greatly, and this word displeased before him; and he said, They have given ten thousand to David, and but one thousand to me; what leaveth to him, no but the realm alone? (And Saul was greatly angered, for these words displeased him; and he said, They have given tens of thousands to David, but only thousands to me; what is left for him now, but only the kingdom itself?)

Psalms 32:2Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord areckoned not sin; neither guile is in his spirit. (Happy is the person, to whom the Lord did not reckon any sin; and there is no deceit in his spirit.)

Psalms 37:1To David. [The psalm of David.] Do not thou follow wicked men; neither love thou men doing wickedness. ( A song by David. Do not thou follow the wicked; nor love thou those who do wickedly.)

Proverbs 3:31Follow thou not an unjust man (or Do not thou follow a law-breaker), follow thou not his ways.

Proverbs 24:1Follow thou not evil men (or Do not thou follow evil people), desire thou not to be with them.

Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast away the idols of his silver, and the simulacra of his gold, which he had made to himself, for to worship mouldwarps and bats. (On that day a man shall throw away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to worship, and he shall leave them for the moles and the bats.)

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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