1 Peter 2:1
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The Living Stone and a Chosen People
2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A)
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Ephesians 4:31
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31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.(A)
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James 1:21
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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.(A)
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James 4:11
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Warning against Judging Another
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.(A)
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1 Peter 3:10
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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;
Colossians 3:5-8
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A) 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.[a](B) 7 These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life.[b] 8 But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive[c] language from your mouth.(C)
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Ephesians 4:22-25
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22 to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,(A) 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.(B)
Rules for the New Life
25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(C)
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Titus 3:3-5
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3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A) 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,(B) 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water[a] of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.(C)
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- 3.5 Gk washing
1 Peter 4:4
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4 They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.[a](A)
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- 4.4 Or they malign you
1 Peter 4:2
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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.(A)
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Hebrews 12:1
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The Example of Jesus
12 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,[a] and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,(A)
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- 12.1 Other ancient authorities read sin that easily distracts
1 Timothy 3:11
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11 Women[a] likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.
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- 3.11 Or Women deacons or Wives
1 Peter 2:22
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22 “He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
James 5:9
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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!(A)
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James 3:16-17
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16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.(A) 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.(B)
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Titus 2:3
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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,(A)
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Galatians 5:21-26
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21 envy,[a] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(A)
The Fruit of the Spirit
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,(B) 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. 24 And those who belong to Christ[b] have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.(C) 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.
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1 Corinthians 3:2-3
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2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,(A) 3 for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling[a] among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?(B)
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- 3.3 Other ancient authorities add and dissensions
Romans 13:12-13
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12 the night is far gone; the day is near. Let us then throw off[a] the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;(A) 13 let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.(B)
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- 13.12 Other ancient authorities read lay aside
Psalm 34:13
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13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit.(A)
Psalm 32:2
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2 Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.(A)
1 Corinthians 14:20
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20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.(A)
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Romans 1:29
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29 They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,
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Luke 6:42
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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.
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Matthew 23:28
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28 So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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