1 Peter 2:1

e. Exhortation to growth in spiritual life, 1 Peter 2:1-8 .

1. Wherefore Because in the new birth (1 Peter 1:23) you have begun a new life, to which the things named are antagonistic.

Laying aside Aorist, having laid aside, once for all, at conversion, these deadly foes of love. Malice is disposed to injure another, or to rejoice in his harm; guile is deceitful and insincere; hypocrisies counterfeit and put forth the seeming for the being; envies are displeased at and depreciate the ability, prosperity, performance, or reputation of others; evil-speakings insinuate, defame, backbite, and carry injurious tales. Each of this horrid family springs out of those before it. They are, as a foul garment, put off.