1 Peter 2:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and 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

Blessed is the man 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

Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:30

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

Proverbs 24:1

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

Proverbs 24:19

Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked;

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways;

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-covered graven images and your gold-plated molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them, “Begone!”

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

Matthew 23:28

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

Matthew 24:51

and will punish him, and put him with the hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their 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 brother's eye.

Mark 12:15

Should we pay them, or should we not?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a coin, and let me look at it.”

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! for you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it.”

Luke 12:1

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

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 do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathana-el coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips,

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that perhaps I may come and find you not what I wish, and that you may find me not what you wish; that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice,

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our appeal does not spring from error or uncleanness, nor is it made with guile;

1 Timothy 3:11

The women likewise must be serious, no slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3

Bid the older women likewise to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; 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 sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

James 1:21

Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which 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 against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, 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 it is in vain that the scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us”?

James 5:9

Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the doors.

1 Peter 2:16

Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.

1 Peter 2:22

He committed no sin; no guile was found on his lips.

1 Peter 3:10

For “He that would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile;

1 Peter 4:2

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

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you do not now join them in the same wild profligacy, and they abuse you;

Revelation 14:5

and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.