1 Peter 2:1

1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Though they are born again of the living and enduring seed—of the Word of God, they still must put aside all malice (or wickedness) and all things like deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. Peter knew that being born again didn’t get rid of all evil in one’s life. New believers have a new spiritual life, but still they have the old flesh in them, which must be “put aside,” or “abstained from” (v. 14).