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 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• Jas 1:21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Jas 4:11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• 1 Pet 3:10For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
• Col 3:5–8Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Titus 3:3–5For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Eph 4:22–25that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• 1 Tim 3:11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• 1 Pet 4:4They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
• Titus 2:3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• 1 Cor 3:2–3I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
• Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
• Ps 34:13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
• 1 Pet 4:2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• Gal 5:21–26envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
• Jas 3:16–17For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
• Ps 32:2Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Rom 13:12–13The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
• 1 Pet 2:22who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
• Ezek 18:31–32Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Matt 7:5You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.
• Ps 37:1By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
• Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• Matt 23:28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Luke 6:42Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.
• Prov 24:1Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• Prov 3:31Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
• 1 Th 2:3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
• 1 Pet 1:18–25knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• Luke 11:44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
• Jas 3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• Prov 24:19Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:
• Rev 14:5In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1 Sam 18:8–9Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”
• 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
• John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

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