1 Peter 2:1
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
- KJV
- Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- WEB
- Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
- ASV
- Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- DARBY
- Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
- BLB
- Therefore, having put off all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil-speakings,
- ÅB
- Avlegg derfor all ondskap og all svik og også hykleri og avind og all baktalelse,
- OTB
- Så legg bort all ondskap, svik, hykleri, misunnelse og all slags baktalelse,
- B1930
- Avlegg derfor all ondskap og all svik og også hykleri og avind og all baktalelse,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 4:31
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
Read in contextJames 1:21
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
Read in contextJames 4:11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
Read in context1 Peter 3:10
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
Read in contextColossians 3:5–8
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Read in contextTitus 3:3–5
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Read in contextEphesians 4:22–25
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Read in context1 Timothy 3:11
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
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