Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
and hypocrisies: "Hypocrisy" is literally "one answering to another" (Vine, Vol. 11 242), referring to someone who is not that person in actuality but is answering for that person. The reference is to a stage actor, speaking out from under a mask. He impersonates or plays a part. So in hypocrisy evil plays the part of good. All such pretension and deception are to be laid aside by the redeemed. They are to be genuine, not pretending to be something or someone they are not.