1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Speak 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.
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:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)The holy apostle has been recommending mutual charity, and setting forth the excellences of the word of God, calling it an incorruptible seed , and saying that it liveth and abideth for ever . He pursues his discourse, and very properly comes in with this necessary advice, Wherefore laying aside all malice , etc. These are such sins as both destroy charity and hinder the efficacy of the word, and…
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