1 Peter 2:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 PETER CHAPTER 2 1 Peter 2:1-3 The apostle exhorteth the Christian converts to lay aside all uncharitableness. 1 Peter 2:4-10 He showeth their privileges through Christ, the chief corner stone. 1 Peter 2:11,12 He beseecheth them to abstain from fleshly lusts, and by their good conversation to promote God's glory among the Gentiles. 1 Peter 2:13-17 He enforceth obedience to magistrates, 1 Peter 2:18-25 and teacheth servants to obey their masters, and to suffer patiently for well-doing, after the example of Christ. Having in the former chapter mentioned the new birth, 1 Peter 1:23, and exhorted to brotherly love, as agreeable to it, 1 Peter 1:22, he begins this chapter with a dehortation, wherein he dissuades them from those vices which are contrary to the state of regenerate men in the general, and brotherly love in particular. Laying aside; or, put off; a metaphor from an old over worn garment, fit only to be thrown away: see Ephesians 4:22 Colossians 3:8,9 Jas 1:21. All malice; malignity, when men do evil to others voluntarily and industriously, or delight in other men's harms: see Romans 1:29 Ephesians 4:31. All guile: all fraudulence and impostures, and circumventing of others in any kind. Hypocrisies; all flattering, and counterfeiting friendship, and showing love in words and outward carriage, when the heart is otherwise affected. Christ calls them hypocrites that flattered him, Matthew 22:16,18. Envies; grieving at other men's welfare. All evil speakings; all kind of detraction.