Ephesians 4:31

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Ephesians 4:31

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Summary

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Bitterness

Wrath

Clamour

Evil speaking

With

General references

Exodus 20:16

Luke 6:36

1 John 4:11

Bible References

Bitterness

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

Wrath

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.

For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

Clamour

And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.

And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut.

And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

Evil speaking

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.

Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.

With

And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.

So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.

Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

General references

Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.