1 Peter 2:1

New King James Version

Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

Cross References

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

James 1:21

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of 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, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But 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 refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.

1 Peter 4:4

In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

1 Peter 4:2

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

James 5:9

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

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

1 Timothy 3:11

Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Psalm 34:13

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

1 Peter 2:22

“Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;

Titus 2:3

the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—

Psalm 32:2

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.

Romans 1:29

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

Luke 6:42

Or 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 plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

Matthew 23:28

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear lest, 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; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;

Proverbs 24:1

Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy the oppressor, And choose none of his ways;

Revelation 14:5

And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God.

1 Peter 2:16

as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

James 4:5

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our exhortation did not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit.

1 Corinthians 5:8

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

John 1:47

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

Luke 11:44

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

Isaiah 30:22

You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, And the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will say to them, “Get away!”

Proverbs 24:19

Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the wicked;

Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.

Job 36:13

“But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; They do not cry for help when He binds them.

Luke 12:1

In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Mark 12:15

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

Matthew 24:51

and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 15:7

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

Isaiah 2:20

In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats,

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.