WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
The 1611 reading
¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and enuies, and euill speakings,
KJV dictionary & concordance
Deceit, treachery, fraud, or deceitful cunning used to mislead or entrap.
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First occurrence: Exodus 21:14
Complete exact-word concordance
WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and enuies, and euill speakings,
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
Who did no sinne, neither was guile found in his mouth.
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:
For hee that will loue life, and see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euil, and his lips that they speake no guile:
1611 marginal notePsal. 34.13.
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Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense.