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Therefore put ye away all malice, and all guile, and feignings, and envies, and all backbitings; [Therefore putting away all malice, and all guile, and simulations, or feignings, and envies, and all detractions;]

as now born young children, reasonable, without guile, covet ye milk [of full teaching], that in it ye wax into health;

if nevertheless ye have tasted, that the Lord is sweet.

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He exhorts the people to lay aside all vice, shows that Christ is the foundation they have built upon, and prays them to abstain from fleshly lusts and to obey worldly rulers. How servants should conduct themselves toward their masters. He exhorts them to suffer after the example of Christ.

Therefore, lay aside all vice, and all guile and dissimulation and envy, and all backbiting. And as newborn babes, desire the milk (not of the body, but of the soul) that is without corruption, so that you may grow therein – if it so be that you have tasted that the Lord is sweet,

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Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

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