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1 Peter 2:1
1Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
Context of 1 Peter 2:1
Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings, 2as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation, 3if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good.
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Ἀποθέμενοι οὖν πᾶσαν κακίαν καὶ πάντα δόλον καὶ ὑποκρίσεις καὶ φθόνους καὶ πάσας καταλαλιάς,Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Peter 2:1
- 1 Peter 1:18knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from [your] fathers,
- 1 Peter 4:2no longer to live the rest of [his] time in [the] flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.
- Isaiah 2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- Isaiah 30:22And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it.
- Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?
- Romans 13:12The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
- Ephesians 4:22[namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
- Colossians 3:5Put to death therefore your members which [are] upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
- Hebrews 12:1Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
- James 1:21Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
- James 5:9Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
- 1 Peter 2:16as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
- 1 Corinthians 5:8so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in [your] minds, but in malice be babes; but in [your] minds be grown [men].
- Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;
- 1 Peter 2:22who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;
Commentaries on 1 Peter 2:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Wherefore, laying aside - This is in close connection with the preceding chapter, from which it should not have been separated, and the subject is continued to the end of the 10th verse. Laying aside all malice - See the notes on Ephesians 4:22-31; (note). These tempers and dispositions must have been common among the Jews, as they are frequently spoken against: Christianity can never admit of such; they show the mind, not of Christ, but of the old…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Wherefore laying aside - On the word rendered laying aside, see Romans 13:12; Ephesians 4:22, Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:8. The allusion is to putting off clothes; and the meaning is, that we are to cast off these things entirely; that is, we are no longer to practice them. The word “wherefore” ( ̓͂ oun) refers to the reasonings in the first chapter. In view of the considerations stated there, we should renounce all evil. All malice - All “evil,” ( ́…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Chapter Outline A temper suitable to the Christian character as born again, is recommended. (1-10) Holy conversation among the Gentiles directed. (11-12) Subjects exhorted to pay all proper obedience to their civil governors. (13-17) Also servants to their masters, and all to be patient, according to the example of the suffering Saviour. (18-25) Verses 1-10 Evil-speaking is a sign of malice and guile in the heart; and hinders our profiting by the word of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-3After calling believers to live holy lives (1:13–21), Peter explains how they must show love to one another as fellow Christians.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251Pe 2:1-25. Exhortations. To guileless feeding on the word by the sense of their privileges as new-born babes, living stones in the spiritual temple built on Christ the chief corner-stone, and royal priests, in contrast to their former state: also to abstinence from fleshly lusts, and to walk worthily in all relations of life, so that the world without which opposes them may be constrained to glorify God in seeing their good works. Christ, the grand…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Peter 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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