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

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

Wrath

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

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

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

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

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

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

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

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, 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 ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had 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 contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, 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 forthwith 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, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Evil speaking

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

And he hath slandered thy servant 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 backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

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

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

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

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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

Take ye heed every 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,

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering 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, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh 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, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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, which accused them before our God day and night.

With

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 wherewith 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 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 in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth 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: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

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

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers 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 wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

General references

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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

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