1 Peter 2:1

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1-3

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 consequently they prevent our regeneration. I. His advice is to lay aside or put off what is evil, as... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 2:1-3

2:1-3 Strip off, therefore, all the evil of the heathen world and all deceitfulness, acts of hypocrisy and feelings of envy, and all gossiping disparagements of other people, and, like newly-born babes, yearn for the unadulterated milk of the word, so that by it you may grow up until you reach salvation. You are bound to do this if you have tasted that the Lord is kind. No Christian can stay the way he is; and Peter urges his people to have done with evil things and to set their hearts on... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 2:1-3

But there is something on which the Christian must set his heart. He must yearn for the unadulterated milk of the word. This is a phrase about whose meaning there is some difficulty. The difficulty is with the word logikos ( Greek #3050 ) which with the King James Version we have translated of the word. The English Revised Version translates it spiritual, and in the margin gives the alternative translation reasonable. Moffatt has spiritual, as has the Revised Standard Version. Logikos ( ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1

Wherefore, laying aside all malice ,.... Since the persons the apostle writes to were born again, and therefore ought to love one another, he exhorts them to the disuse of such vices as were disagreeable to their character as regenerate men, and contrary brotherly love; he dissuades them from them, and advises to "lay them aside", either as weights and burdens, which it was not fit for new born babes to carry; see Hebrews 12:1 or rather as old worn out clothes, as filthy rags, which should... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:1

Wherefore, laying aside - This is in close connection with the preceding chapter, from which it should not have been separated, and the subject is continued to the end of the 10th verse. Laying aside all malice - See the notes on Ephesians 4:22-31 ; (note). These tempers and dispositions must have been common among the Jews, as they are frequently spoken against: Christianity can never admit of such; they show the mind, not of Christ, but of the old murderer. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:1

Verse 1 After having taught the faithful that they had been regenerated by the word of God, he now exhorts them to lead a life corresponding with their birth. For if we live in the Spirit, we ought also to walk in the Spirit, as Paul says. (Galatians 5:25.) It is not, then, sufficient for us to have been once called by the Lord, except we live as new creatures. This is the meaning. But as to the words, the Apostle continues the same metaphor. For as we have been born again, he requires from us... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1

Expositions Wherefore laying aside. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments ( Zechariah 3:3 ) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put off the old man and put on the new ( Ephesians 4:22 , Ephesians 4:24 ; Colossians 3:8 , Colossians 3:10 ; comp. also Romans 13:14 , "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ." The metaphor would be more striking when, at baptism, the old dress was laid aside, and the white chrisom was put on.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1-3

The argument so far is as follows: Redemption; this issuing on holiness; that leading to the fear that they should prove to be without redemption; that fear being excited, the test of love is suggested. They are regarded as bearing that test, and proving their possession of life. The next idea is obviously that of growth. I. WE HAVE HERE THE IDEA OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH . 1. That implies life. Only living things can grow. Peter can speak of growth because he calls them... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1-3

In this "therefore" (Revised Version) our apostle gathers up the argument, perhaps, of all the preceding part of the letter, certainly of the passage immediately preceding this; viz. if we as Christians have begun to live this higher life, how will its early stage manifest himself? So we naturally note— I. SOME OF THE SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL CHILDHOOD . One of the signs that Christian men and women are, what Peter had heard the Lord say they ought to be, like little... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1-10

I. ITS GROWTH . 1. What must be shunned . St. Paul bids us work out our own salvation. The new birth is the beginning; that comes from God—from his free grace. "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." But the new man must grow; and that growth is not spontaneous; it will not evolve itself without effort from the" incorruptible seed." Progress, growth in grace,... read more

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