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 you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy talk out of your mouth.

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

Wrath

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

He that is quickly angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked intentions is hated.

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

Be not hasty in your 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 wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies,

But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy talk out of your mouth.

But foolish and ignorant questions avoid, knowing that they do produce strifes.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not given to dishonest gain;

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Clamour

And 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 you: why then did you despise us, since our advice was first in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer 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 Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, 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 the foolish man 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.

And 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 until 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 violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting over questions and disputes of words, out of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

And he has slandered your servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.

He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

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

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

The words of a talebearer are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

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

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

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

Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

And at the same time they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of the glorious ones.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of the glorious ones.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, 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 will I slay my brother Jacob.

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

You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

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

Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.

He that hates disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself;

Be not hasty in your 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 keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy talk out of your mouth.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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

General references

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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

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