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

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General references

Exodus 20:16

Luke 6:36

1 John 4:11

Bible References

Bitterness

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

But now, put off, ye also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.

but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Wrath

Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly, and a man of mischievous devices is hated.

The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools.

For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,

But now, put off, ye also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.

But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

Clamour

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, I have ten parts in the king and I have also more right in David than thou; and why didst thou slight me? and was not my advice the first, to bring back my king? And the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, he hath no rest.

And having heard this, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.

not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

Thou shalt not go about as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand up against the life of thy neighbour: I am Jehovah.

And he has slandered thy servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thy sight.

He that slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin.

a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

He that covereth hatred hath lying lips, and he that sendeth forth a slander is a fool.

The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The north wind bringeth forth rain, and the angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.

They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.

Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not doer of the law, but judge.

Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.

And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren has been cast out, who accused them before our God day and night:

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And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand, and I will slay my brother Jacob.

And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt earnestly rebuke thy neighbour, lest thou bear sin on account of him.

And Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had humbled his sister Tamar.

Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him:

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.

But now, put off, ye also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.

For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

General references

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.