1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Read in contextJames 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Read in contextJames 4:11
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Read in context1 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:
Read in contextColossians 3:5–8
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Read in contextTitus 3:3–5
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Read in contextEphesians 4:22–25
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Read in context1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
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