1 Peter 2:1
New International Version
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.

New Living Translation
So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech.

English Standard Version
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Berean Standard Bible
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

Berean Literal Bible
Therefore having put aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

King James Bible
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

New King James Version
Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

NASB 1995
Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

NASB 1977
Therefore, putting aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, laying aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Amplified Bible
So put aside every trace of malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander and hateful speech;

Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

American Standard Version
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Therefore, put away from you all wickedness, all treachery, partiality, envy and slander,

Contemporary English Version
Stop being hateful! Quit trying to fool people, and start being sincere. Don't be jealous or say cruel things about others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore laying away all malice, and all guile, and dissimulations, and envies, and all detractions,

English Revised Version
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So get rid of every kind of evil, every kind of deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

Good News Translation
Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.

International Standard Version
Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

Literal Standard Version
Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

Majority Standard Bible
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

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

NET Bible
So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

New Revised Standard Version
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

New Heart English Bible
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all slander,

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,

Weymouth New Testament
Rid yourselves therefore of all ill-will and all deceitfulness, of insincerity and envy, and of all evil speaking.

World English Bible
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Young's Literal Translation
Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

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Context
The Lord is Good
1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. 2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,…

Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Ephesians 4:22
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

Ephesians 4:31
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

James 1:21
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

James 4:11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.


Treasury of Scripture

Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,

Wherefore.

1 Peter 1:18-25
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; …

laying.

1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Isaiah 30:22
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

malice.

1 Peter 2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

guile.

1 Peter 2:22
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Psalm 32:2
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

hypocrisies.

Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

Matthew 7:5
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Matthew 15:7
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,

envies.

1 Samuel 18:8,9
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? …

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1 Peter 2
1. He exhorts to put away wickedness;
4. showing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built.
11. He beseeches them also to abstain from sinful desires;
13. to be obedient to authorities;
18. and teaches servants how to obey their masters;
20. patiently suffering for well doing, after the example of Christ.














(1) Wherefore.--That is, Because the Pauline teaching is correct which brings the Gentiles up to the same level with the Jews. It may be observed that this newly enunciated principle is called by St. Peter in the previous verse of the last chapter, a "gospel," or piece of good news, for all parties.

Laying aside.--This implies that before they had been wrapped up in these sins. There had been "malice" (i.e., ill will put into action) on the part of these Hebrew Christians against their Gentile brethren, and "guile," and "hypocrisies," and "jealousies," which are all instances of concealed malice. Of these three, the first plots, the second pretends not to plot, and the third rejoices to think of the plot succeeding. The word for "all evil speakings" is literally, all talkings down--this is "malice" in word. Archbishop Leighton well says, "The Apostles sometimes name some of these evils, and sometimes other of them; but they are inseparable, all one garment, and all comprehended under that one word (Ephesians 4:22), 'the old man,' which the Apostle there exhorts to put off; and here it is pressed as a necessary evidence of this new birth, and furtherance of their spiritual growth, that these base habits be thrown away, ragged filthy habits, unbeseeming the children of God." All these vices (natural vices to the Jewish mind) are contrasted with the "unfeigned (literally, un-hypocritical) brotherly kindness" of 1Peter 1:22.

Verse 1. - Wherefore laying aside. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put off the old man and put on the new (Ephesians 4:22, 24; Colossians 3:8, 10; comp. also Romans 13:14, "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ." The metaphor would be more striking when, at baptism, the old dress was laid aside, and the white chrisom was put on. St. Paul connects the putting on of Christ with baptism in Galatians 3:27, and St. Peter, when speaking of baptism in 1 Peter 3:21, uses the substantive (ἀπόθεσις) corresponding to the word here rendered "laying aside" (ἀποθέμενοι). All malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings. The sins mentioned here are all offences against that "unfeigned love of the brethren" which formed the subject of St. Peter's exhortation in the latter part of 1 Peter 1. St. Augustine, quoted here by most commentators, says, "Malitia malo delectatur alieno; invidia bone cruciatur alieno; dolus duplicat; adulatio duplicat linguam; detrectatio vulnerat famam" (comp. Ephesians 4:22-31); the close resemblance between the two passages proves St. Peter's knowledge of the Epistle to the Ephesians.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Rid yourselves,
Ἀποθέμενοι (Apothemenoi)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 659: To lay off or aside, renounce, stow away, put. From apo and tithemi; to put away.

therefore,
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

{of} all
πᾶσαν (pasan)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

malice,
κακίαν (kakian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2549: From kakos; badness, i.e. depravity, or malignity, or trouble.

deceit,
δόλον (dolon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1388: Deceit, guile, treachery. From an obsolete primary verb, dello; a trick, i.e. wile.

hypocrisy,
ὑποκρίσεις (hypokriseis)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5272: From hupokrinomai; acting under a feigned part, i.e. deceit.

envy,
φθόνους (phthonous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5355: Envy, a grudge, spite. Probably akin to the base of phtheiro; ill-will, i.e. Jealousy.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

slander.
καταλαλιάς (katalalias)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 2636: Evil-speaking, backbiting, detraction, slander. From katalalos; defamation.


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