knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

having been foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, He was made manifest in these last times for you,

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,

For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of [the] grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

that he no longer should live the remaining time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made, [in order] to worship vanities and bats;

And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the gilt ones, and shall scatter them as the water of a removed [woman], and you shall thrust them forth as dung.

Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness in which you have sinned against Me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you die, O house of Israel?

For I desire not the death of him that dies, says the Lord.

The night is advanced, the day is at hand. Therefore let us put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

that you put off, concerning your former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and that you put on the new man which was created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

So therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every impediment, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Therefore laying aside all filthiness and abundance of evil, in meekness receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Behold, the Judge stands before the doors!

as free, yet not using freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

So then let us observe the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and blasphemy be removed from you, with all malice.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

"Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth";

For "He that desires to love life and see good days, let him stop his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and in whose mouth there is no guile.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!"

For our exhortation [was] not from error nor from uncleanness, nor in trickery,

And no guile was found in their mouth, for they are blameless.

And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because He has bound them.

Hypocrite! First remove the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying,

Thus also you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

and he will cut him in two, and will appoint his share with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Should we give, or should we not give?" But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius, that I may see it."

Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, permit me to remove the speck which is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck which is in your brother's eye.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like unmarked graves, and the men walking over them do not know it."

Now in the meantime, as an innumerable crowd had gathered together so that they were stepping on one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

And it seemed evil in the eyes of Saul concerning this matter, and he said, To David they have given ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands?

[This translation omits this verse.]

[A Psalm] of David. Do not fret because of evildoers, neither be envious of them that do iniquity.

For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

Do not procure the reproaches of bad men, neither shall you covet their ways.

A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart, but passion is a corruption to the bones.

[My] son, envy not bad men, nor desire to be with them.

Rejoice not in evildoers, neither be envious of sinners.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelries and drinking bouts, not in orgies and debaucheries, not in strife and jealousy.

I gave you milk to drink, and not solid food; for you were not yet able [to receive it]. Indeed, neither are you now yet able;

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal, and walking according to human principles?

For I am afraid, lest perhaps when I come, I will not find you as I desire, and that I will be found by you as you do not desire; lest perhaps there [be] contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, disputes, slanders, gossipings, pride, disorders;

envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

For where jealousy and strife [exist], there unrest and every evil deed [are].

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?

In regard to these, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of debauchery, reviling you.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and blasphemy be removed from you, with all malice.

But now you yourselves are to put off all [these]: wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Older women likewise are to be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teaching what is good,

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.