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1 Peter 2:1

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WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
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  1. Ephesians 4:31Rank 1 from verse 1
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    31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

  2. James 1:21Rank 2 from verse 1
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    21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

  3. James 4:11Rank 3 from verse 1
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    11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

  4. 1 Peter 3:10Rank 4 from verse 1
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    10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

  5. Colossians 3:5–8Rank 5 from verse 1
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    5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

    6For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

    7In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

    8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

  6. Titus 3:3–5Rank 6 from verse 1
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    3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

    4But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

    5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

  7. Ephesians 4:22–25Rank 7 from verse 1
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    22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

    23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

    24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

    25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

  8. 1 Peter 4:4Rank 8 from verse 1
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    4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  9. 1 Timothy 3:11Rank 9 from verse 1
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    11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

  10. 1 Corinthians 3:2–3Rank 10 from verse 1
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    2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

    3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

  11. 1 Peter 4:2Rank 11 from verse 1
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    2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  12. Hebrews 12:1Rank 12 from verse 1
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    1WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

  13. James 5:9Rank 13 from verse 1
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    9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

  14. Psalms 34:13Rank 14 from verse 1
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    13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

  15. Titus 2:3Rank 15 from verse 1
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    3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

  16. 1 Peter 2:22Rank 16 from verse 1
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    22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

  17. Galatians 5:21–26Rank 17 from verse 1
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    21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

    23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

    24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

    25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

    26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

  18. James 3:16–17Rank 18 from verse 1
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    16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

    17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

  19. Psalms 32:2Rank 19 from verse 1
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    2Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

  20. Romans 13:12–13Rank 20 from verse 1
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    12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

    13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

  21. 1 Corinthians 14:20Rank 21 from verse 1
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    20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

  22. Ezekiel 18:31–32Rank 22 from verse 1
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    31¶ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

    32For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

  23. Luke 6:42Rank 23 from verse 1
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    42Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.

  24. Matthew 23:28Rank 24 from verse 1
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    28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

  25. Matthew 7:5Rank 25 from verse 1
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    5Thou 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.

  26. Psalms 37:1Rank 26 from verse 1
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    1FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

  27. Romans 1:29Rank 27 from verse 1
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    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

  28. 2 Corinthians 12:20Rank 28 from verse 1
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    20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

  29. Proverbs 24:1Rank 29 from verse 1
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    1BE not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

  30. Proverbs 3:31Rank 30 from verse 1
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    31¶ Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

  31. 1 Corinthians 5:8Rank 31 from verse 1
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    8Therefore 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.

  32. 1 Peter 1:18–25Rank 32 from verse 1
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    18Forasmuch 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;

    19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

    20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

    21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

    22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

    23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

    24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

    25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

  33. 1 Peter 2:16Rank 33 from verse 1
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    16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

  34. 1 Samuel 18:8–9Rank 34 from verse 1
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    8And 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?

    9And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

  35. 1 Thessalonians 2:3Rank 35 from verse 1
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    3For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

  36. Isaiah 30:22Rank 36 from verse 1
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    22Ye 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.

  37. James 3:14Rank 37 from verse 1
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    14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

  38. James 4:5Rank 38 from verse 1
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    5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

  39. Job 36:13Rank 39 from verse 1
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    13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

  40. John 1:47Rank 40 from verse 1
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    47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

  41. Luke 11:44Rank 41 from verse 1
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    44Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.

  42. Proverbs 14:30Rank 42 from verse 1
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    30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

  43. Proverbs 24:19Rank 43 from verse 1
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    19Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

  44. Revelation 14:5Rank 44 from verse 1
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    5And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

  45. Matthew 24:51Rank 45 from verse 1
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    51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  46. Isaiah 2:20Rank 46 from verse 1
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    20In 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;

  47. Luke 12:1Rank 47 from verse 1
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    1IN the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

  48. Mark 12:15Rank 48 from verse 1
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    15Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.

  49. Matthew 15:7Rank 49 from verse 1
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    7Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,

  50. Psalms 73:3Rank 50 from verse 1
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    3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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1 Peter 2:1

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wherefore

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1. For that reason, or as a conclusion from what precedes; therefore or consequently. 2. For what reason or purpose; why.

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laying

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of lay. Sense 1: To put, place, set, arrange, deposit, apply, establish, impose, or cause to be in a stated position or condition. Sense 2: In lay with, to have sexual relations. Sense 3: To press or bear upon. Sense 4: In lay up, lay by, or lay in store, to keep, store, or treasure; in lay wait, lay snares, lay an ambush, or lay siege, to prepare or set. Sense 5: In lay hold or lay hands on, to seize, take, apprehend, or touch. Sense 6: In lay down one's life, to surrender or give it; in lay aside, lay apart, or lay away, to remove, reject, or put off.

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COMBINED MEANING

aside

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1. To or at one side; apart or away from a person, place, or company. 2. Away from a path, course, duty, allegiance, or subject. 3. Put apart, removed, discarded, or rejected.

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guile

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Deceit, treachery, fraud, or deceitful cunning used to mislead or entrap.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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hypocrisies

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Simulation; a feigning to be what one is not; or dissimulation, a concealment of one's real character or motives.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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2:1WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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2:2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

2:3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

2:4To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

2:6Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

2:7Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

2:8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

2:10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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