1 Peter 2:1
Good News Translation
Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.

New Revised Standard Version
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

Contemporary English Version
Stop being hateful! Quit trying to fool people, and start being sincere. Don't be jealous or say cruel things about others.

New American Bible
Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

Wherefore.

1 Peter 1:18-25 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: . . .

laying.

1 Peter 4:2 That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Isaiah 30:22 And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.

Ezekiel 18:31,32 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel? . . .

Romans 13:12 The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

Ephesians 4:22-25 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. . . .

Colossians 3:5-8 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 1:21 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 5:9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

malice.

1 Peter 2:16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

Titus 3:3-5 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. . . .

guile.

1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

1 Peter 3:10 For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

Psalm 32:2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Psalm 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit.

Revelation 14:5 And in their mouth there was found no lie: for they are without spot before the throne of God.

hypocrisies.

Job 36:13 Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.

Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Matthew 15:7 Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:

Matthew 23:28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 24:51 And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mark 12:15 Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me? Bring me a penny that I may see it.

Luke 6:42 Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye: and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye.

Luke 11:44 Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.

Luke 12:1 And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

envies.

1 Samuel 18:8,9 And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given but a thousand, what can he have more but the kingdom? . . .

Psalm 37:1 Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity.

Psalm 73:3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

Proverbs 3:31 For every mocker is an abomination to the Lord, and his communication is with the simple.

Proverbs 14:30 Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 24:1,19 Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them: . . .

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

1 Corinthians 3:2,3 I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

Galatians 5:21-26 Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. . . .

James 3:14,16 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

James 4:5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

all evils.

1 Peter 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

Colossians 3:8 But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

1 Timothy 3:11 The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3 The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

James 4:11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Context
The Lord is Good
1Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, 2As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

Ephesians 4:22
To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

James 1:21
Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 4:11
Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

1 Peter 1:25
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