1 Peter 2:1

Chosen As Living Stones

¹ So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander. ² Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

Lay Aside

Laying Aside All Malice

Once for All

Put Off

Put Aside

Ephesians 4:31

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

James 1:21

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.

James 4:11

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Psalm 37:1

Davidic.Do not be agitated by evildoers;
do not envy those who do wrong.

1 Samuel 18:8-9

Saul was furious and resented this song. “They credited tens of thousands to David,” he complained, “but they only credited me with thousands. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

Job 36:13

Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

Psalm 32:2

How joyful is the man
the Lord does not charge with sin
and in whose spirit is no deceit!

Psalm 34:13

Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.

Psalm 73:3

For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 3:31

Don’t envy a violent man
or choose any of his ways;

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil heart is life to the body,
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.

Proverbs 24:1

Don’t envy evil men
or desire to be with them,

Proverbs 24:19

Don’t be agitated by evildoers,
and don’t envy the wicked.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

Ezekiel 18:31-32

Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew 23:28

In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 24:51

He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mark 12:15

Should we pay, or should we not pay?”

But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”

Luke 6:42

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.

Luke 11:44

“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

Luke 12:1

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

John 1:47

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

Romans 1:29

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Romans 13:12-13

The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

1 Corinthians 3:2-3

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians 5:21-26

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:22-25

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

Colossians 3:5-8

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our exhortation didn’t come from error or impurity or an intent to deceive.

1 Timothy 3:11

Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.

Titus 2:3

In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Titus 3:3-5

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

James 3:16-17

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

James 4:5

Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?

James 5:9

Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!

1 Peter 1:18-25

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:16

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

1 Peter 2:22

He did not commit sin,
and no deceit was found in His mouth;

1 Peter 3:10

For the one who wants to love life
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

1 Peter 4:4

So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.

Revelation 14:5

No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

Matthew 15:7

Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said: