1 Peter 2:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

Cross References

Job 36:13

“The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

Psalm 32:2

Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Psalm 34:13

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

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers,

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but jealousy makes the bones rot.

Proverbs 24:1

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

Proverbs 24:19

Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not envy the wicked,

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy the violent, and do not choose any of their ways,

Isaiah 2:20

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

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:

Matthew 23:28

So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 24:51

He will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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 neighbor’s eye.

Mark 12:15

Should we pay them, or should we not?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why are you putting me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me see it.”

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves on which people unknowingly walk.”

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.

Luke 6:42

Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

Romans 1:29

They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, 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 as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Ephesians 4:31

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery,

1 Timothy 3:11

Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3

Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,

Hebrews 12:1

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

James 1:21

Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but 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 to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell in us desire envy?

James 5:9

Brothers and sisters, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors!

1 Peter 2:16

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

1 Peter 2:22

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

1 Peter 3:10

For “Those who desire to love life and to see good days, let them keep their tongues from evil and their lips from speaking deceit;

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.

Revelation 14:5

and in their mouth no lie was found; they are blameless.