Once in a stately passion / I cried with desperate grief,/ 'O Lord, my heart is black with guile,/ Of sinners I am chief.'
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1 Peter 2:1:
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
(NIV)
SO BE done with every trace of wickedness (depravity, malignity) and all deceit and insincerity (pretense, hypocrisy) and grudges (envy, jealousy) and slander and evil speaking of every kind.
(AMP)
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 2:3:
For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you.
(NIV)
For our appeal [in preaching] does not [originate] from delusion or error or impure purpose or motive, nor in fraud or deceit.
(AMP)
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
(KJV)
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1 Peter 2:22:
'He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.'
(NIV)
He was guilty of no sin, neither was deceit (guile) ever found on His lips. [Isa. 53:9.](AMP)
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
(KJV)
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We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
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