TSK · 1 Peter 2:1

This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought,“They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”

How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

By David. Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed! Do not envy evildoers!

Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose any of his ways;

Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

How can you say to your brother,‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples,“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk– indeed all malice.

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

The Lord’s Discipline Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.