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 must not steal. You must not act deceptively or lie to one another.

He said to him, “I am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet deceived him,

You love evil instead of good,
lying instead of speaking truthfully.Selah

Keep me from the way of deceit
and graciously give me Your instruction.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,

Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue, only a moment.

Making a fortune through a lying tongue
is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

The head is the elder, the honored one;
the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.

For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers, with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
and your tongues mutter injustice.

He said, “They are indeed My people,
children who will not be disloyal,”
and He became their Savior.

They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,
and adultery are rampant;
one act of bloodshed follows another.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field?

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self

with its practices

for the sexually immoral and homosexuals, for kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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

Speak

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ.

For my mouth tells the truth,
and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Whoever speaks the truth declares what is right,
but a false witness, deceit.

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your gates.

For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self

with its practices

For

since we are members of His body.

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread.

For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.

General references

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

So the body is not one part but many.