Ephesians 4:25

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Summary

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Putting

Speak

For

General references

Romans 12:5

1 Corinthians 12:14

Bible References

Putting

‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

He said to him, “I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.

You love evil more than good,

Falsehood more than speaking what is right.

Selah.

Remove the false way from me,
And graciously grant me Your law.

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,

And hands that shed innocent blood,

Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is only for a moment.

The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue
Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

The head is the elder and honorable man,
And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.

For He said, “Surely, they are My people,
Sons who will not deal falsely.”
So He became their Savior.

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.

There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

and

immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised

long ages ago,

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Speak

but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

“For my mouth will utter truth;
And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

He who speaks truth tells what is right,
But a false witness, deceit.

These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.

For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

For

because we are members of His body.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

General references

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

For the body is not one member, but many.