What Does 1 Peter 2:1 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse pictures malice, deceit, envy, and slander as things you can put down, not as the fixed shape of who you are.
THE MEANING
The verse names malice, guile, hypocrisy, envy, and evil speech as things being laid aside now. Its central verb pictures them as things set down and released. The next verse turns from this clearing to a hunger for unadulterated milk.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that these ways of relating are permanent features of the self: the verse pictures them as things that can be put aside.
THE ROOT
ἀποθέμενοι
apotithemenoi
GROWS FROM
τίθημι
tithēmi
To put, place, or set; the prefix ἀπό (apo) gives the action its direction: away.
“laying aside” in this verse is apotithemenoi. The Greek form joins “away” to “put”: the harms named here are pictured as a bundle being set down. The same base can describe putting something away or laying something upon, so the direction of the action matters: here, these harms are released from their place in the reader’s life.
ALSO GROWS
apotithēmi: To put something away or cast it off.
ἀποτίθημι
This is the verb behind “laying aside” here; its use for casting off works of darkness in Romans 13:12 makes the image of removal especially clear.
epitithēmi: To place or lay something upon.
ἐπιτίθημι
This compound shares the root of putting and placing, while its prefix points the action toward something being laid on; in this verse, the direction is away.
THE PATTERN
A life-giving movement begins by putting away what corrupts relationship and action.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,THE THREAD
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,Both verses use ἀποτίθημι (apotithēmi, “lay aside; put away”). Here a bundle of harms is put down; in Hebrews, weights and sin are laid aside so the race can continue.
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