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 whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

But now put ye also off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.

Wrath

Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

He that is soon angry shall deal foolishly, and the man of wicked devices shall be hated.

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

Do not be hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I desire and that I shall be found unto you such as ye desire not, lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, rumours, tumults,

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

But now put ye also off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

But foolish and unwise questions refuse, knowing that they do beget contentions.

For the bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not arrogant, not quick to anger, not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain,

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

Clamour

Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye; why then did ye not take us into account? Did we not speak first about bringing back our king? But in the end words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

And a man of Belial happened to be there, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a man of Jemini, and he blew the shofar, saying, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O Israel.

If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.

And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

So that all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

And they gave him audience unto this word and then lifted up their voices and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth, for it is not fit that he should live.

not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but is driven mad concerning questions and controversy of words, of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Evil speaking

Thou shalt not travel about as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the LORD.

And he has slandered thy slave unto my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thine eyes.

He that does not backbite with his tongue nor do evil to his neighbour nor take up a reproach against his neighbour.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Whosoever secretly slanders his neighbour, I will cut off; he that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

The man with an evil tongue shall not be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the man of violence to overthrow him.

a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The north wind drives away rain, so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out, so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

They are all rebellious princes; they walk with deception: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

The wives likewise are to be honest, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

And reject also the idle, who have learned to wander about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;

That they speak evil of no one, that they not be contentious, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.

Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper of the law, but a judge.

Having therefore left all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all murmurings,

and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;

In the same manner these deceived dreamers, defile their flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of higher powers.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation and virtue and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

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And Cain talked with 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 blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will slay my brother Jacob.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt rebuke thy neighbour in sincerity, that thou not bear sin for him.

And Absalom spoke neither good nor bad unto his brother Amnon, for Absalom hated Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Hatred stirs up strifes, but love covers all sins.

He that hates dissembles with his lips and lays up deceit within him;

Do not be hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

therefore let us celebrate the feast, not in the old leaven, neither in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers, be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children; but in understanding be perfect.

But now put ye also off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

General references

Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.

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

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