“Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings” (1 Peter 2:1).
Try placing the four specific sins, guile, hypocrisies, envy, evil speaking, in the order of your strongest temptation. For example, maybe you struggle with speaking evil against others more than you envy others. Your list might then be; evil speaking, hypocrisies, guile, envy.
Placing them in order of your weaknesses will help you think through the differences in behaviors and give you a way to pray specifically for victory in your most difficult area.
Guile: devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants.
Hypocrisies: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
Envies: a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck:
Evil Speaking: . ]
a. Speaking: 1 say something in order to convey information, an opinion,
b. Evil: profoundly immoral and malevolent: harmful or intending to harm
