Lay Aside All Sin.

 Lay aside- ALL malice (all intent to wish or do harm, hatred, spite, meanness, nastiness, cruelty, wickedness, mischievous) 

Lay aside- ALL guile (cunning, deceitfulness, treachery, slyness, wiliness, craftiness) Lay aside- ALL hypocrisies (insincerity, pretenses, duplicities, double standards, falseness) 

Lay aside- ALL envies (jealousies, resentments, spites, greed, bitterness) 

Lay aside- ALL evil speakings (morally bad, deliberately harmful, causing misfortune, maliciousness) 

We have to determine to be without any hatred of any kind, without any evil, we cannot deliberately hold onto anything untoward in any way at all. We can't cling to anything that would keep us from being open to the truth of God. We need to be willing to let go of ALL we are as sin corrupted beings. We can't defend our sinful selves in any way. We can't make excuses for our sins not the greatest of them, not the least. We can't justify our sins. We are tempted to give a reason for the sins we commit as if that can excuse them and make us righteousness somehow, it can't. There isn't a single good reason for sin. We sin because we are weak beings of flesh. We strive not to sin and pray constantly for the power of Christ in us to overcome the evil, the temptations, the sins in our lives. We can't overcome by our own power, but Christ in us can. All glory to God, all glory! Let us lay aside any and all sin we knowingly cling to. Let us renounce it right now, and if we find ourselves overcome by any of the sin we've laid aside- let us lay is aside again and again and again, never ceasing to comprehend we have to fight, to strive against sins that truly so easily beset us.

Heb 12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Heb 12:1  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

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Articles on Romans by E. J. Waggoner Chapter 15 Excerpt

"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby; if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious." 1 Pet. 1:1-3.

"One Faith." We may now stop to see how this that the apostle has said connects with what he has said in the fourteenth chapter, about Christ's being the minister of the circumcision, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, in order that the Gentiles might glorify God.

"Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations." Mark this: They who are to be received "as Christ also received us to the glory of God," are those who have the faith. Now there is but "one faith," as there is but "one Lord." Eph. 4:5. And faith comes by hearing the word of God. Rom. 10:17.

Since there is to be but one fold, and Christ, the one Shepherd, is not divided, there must be no division in the fold. Disputings, which come from human wisdom and human ideas, are to be left out, and the word of God alone followed. That allows of no disputing, since it tells ever one and the same thing. This is the rule:  "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby; if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious." 1 Pet. 1:1-3.