1 Peter 2:1

Believers must put away malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander—sins that destroy fellowship. The new life requires actively laying aside love-killing sins.

Cross-references · 40

• Eph 4:31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
• Jas 1:21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
• Jas 4:11Brothers, 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.
• 1 Pet 3:10For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
• Col 3:5–8Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Titus 3:3–5For 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.
• Eph 4:22–25to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• 1 Tim 3:11In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
• 1 Pet 4:4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
• Titus 2:3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
• 1 Cor 3:2–3I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
• Heb 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
• Jas 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
• Ps 34:13Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
• 1 Pet 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• Gal 5:21–26and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jas 3:16–17For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
• Ps 32:2Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Rom 13:12–13The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
• 1 Pet 2:22“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
• Ezek 18:31–32Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
• Matt 7:5You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
• Ps 37:1Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
• Rom 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
• Matt 23:28In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
• Luke 6:42How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
• Prov 24:1Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• Prov 3:31Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
• 1 Th 2:3For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
• 1 Pet 1:18–25For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
• Luke 11:44Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
• Jas 3:14But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
• Prov 24:19Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.
• Rev 14:5And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
• 1 Sam 18:8–9And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
• 1 Pet 2:16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
• John 1:47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

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