1 Peter 2:1

Modern English Version

Therefore put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking.

Cross References

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outbursts, and blasphemies, with all malice, be taken away from you.

James 1:21

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

1 Peter 3:10

For “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you do not join them in the same excess of wild living, and so they speak evil of you.

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh serving human desires, but the will of God.

James 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are encompassed with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

1 Timothy 3:11

Likewise, the women must be honorable, not slanderers, sober, and faithful in all things.

Psalm 34:13

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

1 Peter 2:22

“He committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth.”

Titus 2:3

Likewise, older women should be reverent in behavior, and not be false accusers, not be enslaved to much wine, but teachers of good things,

Psalm 32:2

Blessed is the man against whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking; rather be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and craftiness. They are gossips,

Luke 6:42

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

Matthew 23:28

So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 7:5

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

Psalm 37:1

Fret not because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish. I fear there are debates, envying, wrath, strife, backbiting, whispering, arrogance, and disorder.

Proverbs 24:1

Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy the oppressor and do not choose any of his ways,

Revelation 14:5

No lie was found in their mouths, for they are without fault before the throne of God.

1 Peter 2:16

As free people, do not use your liberty as a covering for evil, but live as servants of God.

James 4:5

Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us” ?

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our exhortation was not from deceit, nor from impure motive, nor in treachery.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, nor with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and said concerning him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Luke 11:44

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unseen graves, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.”

Isaiah 30:22

You shall defile also your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molded images ornamented with gold. You shall scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”

Proverbs 24:19

Fret not because of evildoers, nor be envious of the wicked,

Proverbs 14:30

A sound mind is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Job 36:13

“But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath; they do not cry out when He binds them.

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, when thousands of the crowd were assembled, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Mark 12:15

Should we pay, or should we not pay?” But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why test Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may see it.”

Matthew 24:51

and will cut him in pieces and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites, Isaiah well prophesied of you, saying:

Isaiah 2:20

In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the boastful when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.