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

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General references

Romans 12:5

1 Corinthians 12:14

Bible References

Putting

"You are not to steal or lie or deal falsely with your neighbor.

"I'm a prophet like you," the old man replied, "and an angel spoke to me and delivered this message from the LORD: "Bring him back with you to your house and give him food and water.'" But he was lying,

You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude

Remove false paths from me; and graciously give me your instruction.

Arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, and hands shedding innocent blood;

A truthful saying is trusted forever, but the liar only for a moment.

A fortune gained by deceit is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

the elder and the dignitary is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your tongue mutters wickedness.

For he said, "Surely they are my people, children who won't act falsely." And so he became their savior.

They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don't know me," declares the LORD.

Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices

for those involved in sexual immorality, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for false witnesses, and for whatever else goes against the healthy teaching

and the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences have been burned by a hot iron.

which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.

But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."

Outside are dogs, sorcerers, immoral people, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Speak

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

For my mouth speaks the truth wickedness is detestable to me.

The truth teller speaks what is right, but the false witness speaks what is deceitful.

Here's what you must do: tell the truth to your neighbors, administer true and peaceful justice in your courtrooms,

For if I have been doing some boasting about you to him, I have never been ashamed of it. Moreover, since everything we told you was true, our boasting to Titus has also proved to be true.

Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices

For

For we are parts of his body of his flesh and of his bones.

In the same way, even though we are many people, we are one body in the Messiah and individual parts connected to each other.

Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us eat from the same loaf.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

General references

In the same way, even though we are many people, we are one body in the Messiah and individual parts connected to each other.

For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many.