Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Therefore, stripping off falsehood, "let each of us speak the truth to his neighbor," for we belong to one another.

New American Standard Bible

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

A Conservative Version

Therefore having put off falsehood, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, because we are body-parts of each other.

American Standard Version

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Amplified

Therefore, rejecting all falsehood [whether lying, defrauding, telling half-truths, spreading rumors, any such as these], speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one another [and we are all parts of the body of Christ].

An Understandable Version

So then, put away lying and [Zech 8:16], "Each one should speak truthfully with his neighbor," because we are parts of one another [i.e., in the one body].

Anderson New Testament

For which reason, putting away lying, speak, every one, truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Bible in Basic English

And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

Common New Testament

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, each one of you must speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Wherefore leave off the practice of lying, and let every man speak truth to his neighbour: for we are all members of one society.

Darby Translation

Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

Godbey New Testament

Therefore, having laid aside lying, speak the truth each one with his neighbors: because we are members of one another.

Goodspeed New Testament

So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore putting away lying, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore, put away lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbor, forasmuch as we are members one of another.

Moffatt New Testament

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

Montgomery New Testament

So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

NET Bible

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Noyes New Testament

Wherefore having put away falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbor; for we are members one of another.

Sawyer New Testament

Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, 'you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.' For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For this reason, laying aside falsehood, every one of you should speak the truth to his fellow man; for we are, as it were, parts of one another.

Williams New Testament

So you must lay aside falsehood and each of you practice telling the truth to his neighbor, for we are parts of one another.

World English Bible

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Worrell New Testament

Wherefore, having put away false-hood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor, because we are members one of another.

Worsley New Testament

Wherefore putting away lying, speak ye every one truth to his neighbor; for we are all members of one society.

Youngs Literal Translation

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
διό 
Dio 
Usage: 52

ἀποτίθημι 
Apotithemi 
Usage: 8

ψεῦδος 
Pseudos 
Usage: 8

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

ἕκαστος 
hekastos 
Usage: 73

ἀλήθεια 
Aletheia 
Usage: 87

with
μετά 
meta 
with, after, among, hereafter , afterward , against, not tr,
Usage: 346

his

Usage: 0

πλησίον 
Plesion 
Usage: 12

for
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

we are
ἐσμέν 
Esmen 
Usage: 50

μέλος 
melos 
Usage: 32

Devotionals

Devotionals about Ephesians 4:25

References

Images Ephesians 4:25

Prayers for Ephesians 4:25

Context Readings

Old Behavior, New Behavior, And Motivation

24 and to clothe yourselves with the new nature, which was created according to God's image in righteousness and true holiness. 25 Therefore, stripping off falsehood, "let each of us speak the truth to his neighbor," for we belong to one another. 26 "Be angry, yet do not sin." Do not let the sun set while you are still angry,


Cross References

Colossians 3:9

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

Zechariah 8:16

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

Romans 12:5

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

Ephesians 4:15

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

Leviticus 19:11

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

Proverbs 8:7

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

Proverbs 12:17

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

Proverbs 12:22

Deceitful speech is reprehensible to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

1 Kings 13:18

"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,

Psalm 52:3

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

Psalm 119:29

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

Proverbs 6:17

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

Proverbs 12:19

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

Proverbs 21:6

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

Isaiah 9:15

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

Isaiah 59:3-4

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

Isaiah 63:8

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

Jeremiah 9:3-5

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.

Hosea 4:2

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

Zechariah 8:19

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "The fasts that occur in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will be joyful and glad times for the house of Judah, replete with cheerful festivals. Therefore, love truth and peace.'"

John 8:44

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.

Acts 5:3-4

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?

1 Corinthians 10:17

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

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

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.

2 Corinthians 7:14

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.

1 Timothy 1:10

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

1 Timothy 4:2

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

Titus 1:2

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

Titus 1:12

One of their very own prophets said, "Liars ever, men of Crete, savage brutes that live to eat."

Revelation 21:8

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."

Revelation 22:15

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

Ephesians 5:30

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

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