But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

Wrath

"Be angry and sin not"; let not the sun go down upon your anger.

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism,

But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

Ever shun foolish and puerile discussions, for you know that they lead to quarrels.

For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;

Mark this well, my dear brothers. Let every man be swift in hearing, slow in speaking, slow in growing angry;

But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

Clamour

After listening to this they were filled with rage, and cried out again and again, saying,

The whole city was thrown into uproar. The mob surged together, seized Paul, and began to drag him outside the temple. Whereupon the doors were at once shut.

Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover;

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

Deaconesses likewise must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.

without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal.

that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all.

Do not be talking against each other, brothers. He who is talking against a brother and condemning his brothers is talking against the Law and condemning the Law. But if you are condemning the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities;

Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities.

And I heard a great voice in heaven, which said: "Now it is come! the salvation and the power, The kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ! For the accuser of our brethren is thrown down, Who accused them before our God, day and night.

With

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

General references

"Do you therefore be merciful, As your Father is merciful.

If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.