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

Romans 3:14

Colossians 3:8

James 3:14

Wrath

Clamour

Evil speaking

With

General references

Luke 6:36

1 John 4:11

Bible References

Bitterness

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

Wrath

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation:

For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, divisions, heresies,

but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife.

For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath:

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

Clamour

And hearing and being filled with rage, they continued to cry out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

And they continued to hear him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Take away such a one from the earth: for it is not appropriate for him to live.

not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover;

he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,

Evil speaking

being filled with all injustice, wickedness, vice, covetousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceitfulness, evil affection;

Likewise let their wives be grave, not tattlers, modest, faithful in all things.

and at the same time they learn to be idle, going about houses; and not only idle, but also loquacious even busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

without natural affections, covenant breakers, devilish, intemperate, furious, opposed to good,

likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

to speak evil of no one, that they should be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Therefore having laid aside all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all calumniations;

and especially those going after the flesh in the lust of pollution, and despising lordship. Audacious darers, blaspheming, they do not tremble at glories;

Likewise indeed these dreamers also pollute the flesh, and reject lordship, and blaspheme glories.

And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now has come salvation, and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren, the one accusing them before our God day and night, is cast out.

With

being filled with all injustice, wickedness, vice, covetousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceitfulness, evil affection;

So let us feast, not on the old leaven, nor on the leaven of sin and iniquity, but on the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;

not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother; and on account of what did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

General references

Therefore be ye merciful, as your Father is indeed merciful.

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