1 Peter 2:1 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

⁵ You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied finely about you when he said,

²⁸ So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

⁵¹ and will cut him in two, and put him with the hypocrites, to weep and gnash his teeth.

¹⁵ Should we pay it, or refuse to pay it?" But he saw through their pretense, and said to them, "Why do you put me to such a test? Bring me a denarius to look at."

⁴² How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

⁴⁴ Alas for you! For you are like unmarked graves which men tread upon without knowing it."

¹ Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and he said of him, "Here is really an Israelite without any deceit in him!"

²⁹ They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature.

¹² The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us live honorably, as in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, or in immorality and indecency, or in quarreling and jealousy.

² I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now, ³ for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?

⁸ So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

²⁰ Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

²⁰ for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God. ²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things! ²⁴ Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not in our vanity challenge one another or envy one another.

²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. ²³ You must adopt a new attitude of mind, ²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth. ²⁵ So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.

³¹ You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

⁵ So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry. ⁶ It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming. ⁷ And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life. ⁸ But now you too must put them all aside—anger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk—these must be banished from your lips.

³ For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.

¹¹ Their wives too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate, and perfectly trustworthy.

³ Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

³ For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another. ⁴ But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed, ⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

¹ Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

²¹ So strip yourselves of everything that soils you, and of every evil growth, and in a humble spirit let the message that has the power to save your souls be planted in your hearts.

¹⁴ But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth.

¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and every low action. ¹⁷ The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward.

⁵ Do you suppose the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit he has put in our hearts?"

¹¹ Do not talk against one another, brothers. Whoever talks against a brother or condemns his brother talks against the Law, and condemns the Law. But if you condemn the Law you are not an observer of the Law but its judge.

⁹ Do not complain of one another, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is standing right at the door!

¹⁸ for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of an unblemished, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ, ²⁰ who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages, ²¹ for the sake of you who through him trust in God, who raised him from the dead and showed him honor; and so your faith and hope rest on God. ²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily, ²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God. ²⁴ For "All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And the flower fades, ²⁵ But the word of the Lord will last forever," that is, the good news that has been brought to you.

¹⁶ Live like free men, only do not make your freedom an excuse for doing wrong, but be slaves of God.

²² He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips.

¹⁰ For "Let him who would enjoy life And see happy days, Keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from uttering deceit.

² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

⁴ They are amazed that you no longer join them in plunging into the flood of dissipation, and they abuse you for it;

⁵ and they have never been known to utter a lie; they are irreproachable.