1 Peter 2:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander;

Cross References

Job 36:13

The impious in heart lay up anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them;

Psalm 32:2

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no deceit.

Psalm 34:13

Who is the man who delights in life, who loves to see the good days?

Psalm 37:1

Of David. Do not be provoked by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.

Psalm 73:3

Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones.

Proverbs 24:1

Do not envy the wicked, nor desire to be with them;

Proverbs 24:19

Do not be provoked at evildoers, do not envy the wicked;

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy the violent and choose none of their ways:

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people shall throw to moles and bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold which they made for themselves to worship.

Isaiah 30:22

You shall defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered images; You shall throw them away like filthy rags, you shall say, “Get out!”

Matthew 15:7

Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you when he said:

Matthew 23:28

Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.

Matthew 24:51

and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye. Pearls Before Swine.

Mark 12:15

Knowing their hypocrisy he said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius to look at.”

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk.”

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, so many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot. He began to speak, first to his disciples, “Beware of the leaven—that is, the hypocrisy—of the Pharisees. Courage Under Persecution.

Luke 6:42

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’ when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye. A Tree Known by Its Fruit.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite. There is no duplicity in him.”

Romans 1:29

They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come I may find you not such as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; that there may be rivalry, jealousy, fury, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Ephesians 4:31

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

1 Thessalonians 2:3

Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives, nor did it work through deception.

1 Timothy 3:11

Women, similarly, should be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in everything.

Titus 2:3

Similarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to drink, teaching what is good,

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us

James 1:21

Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or 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.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, “The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy”?

James 5:9

Do not complain, brothers, about one another, that you may not be judged. Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates.

1 Peter 2:16

Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God.

1 Peter 2:22

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

1 Peter 3:10

For: “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep the tongue from evil and the lips from speaking deceit,

1 Peter 4:2

so as not to spend what remains of one’s life in the flesh on human desires, but on the will of God.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you do not plunge into the same swamp of profligacy, and they vilify you;

Revelation 14:5

On their lips no deceit has been found; they are unblemished. The Three Angels.