Ephesians 4:31

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Ephesians 4:31

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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

With

General references

Exodus 20:16

Luke 6:36

1 John 4:11

Bible References

Bitterness

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,

"Whose mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.

Wrath

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

An impatient man handleth foolishly; but he that is well advised, doth other ways.

The king's disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass.

Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord.

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, lawing, zeal, wrath, strife, sedition, sects,

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.

Foolish and unlearned questions put from thee, remembering that they do but gender strife.

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

Clamour

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and have thereto more right to David than ye. Why then did ye despise us, that our advice had not been first had in restoring our king again?" And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

And there happened to be an unthrifty fellow named Sheba, the son of Bichri a man of Benjamin which blew a trumpet and said, "We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse, O Israel.

If a wise man go to law with a fool - whether he deal with him friendly or roughly - he getteth no rest.

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 swarmed together. And they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple, and forthwith the doors were shut to.

They gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth: it is pity that he should live."

not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,

he is puffed up and knoweth nothing: but wasteth his brains about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings

Evil speaking

"'Thou shalt not go up and down a privy accuser among thy people, neither shalt thou help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

And he hath thereto complained on thy servant unto my lord the king. But my lord the king is as an Angel of God: do therefore what seemeth best in thine eyes.

He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbours.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, yea and slanderest thine own mother's son.

Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach, I will not suffer him.

A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth; a malicious and wicked person shall be hunted away, and destroyed.

a false witness that bringeth up lies, and such one as soweth discord among brethren.

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

The words of a slanderer are very wounds, and go through unto the inmost parts of the body.

The north wind driveth away the rain, even so doth an earnest sober countenance a backbiter's tongue.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth.

For they are all unfaithful and fallen away, they hang upon filthy lucre; they are clean brass and iron, for they hurt and destroyed every man.

Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another.

being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers,

Even so must their wives be honest, not evil speakers: but sober, and faithful in all things.

And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely.

unkind, trucebreakers, stubborn, false accusers, rioters, fierce, despisers of them which are good,

And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

that they speak evil of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, showing all meekness unto all men.

Backbite not one another, brethren. He that backbiteth his brother, and he that judgeth his brother, backbiteth the law, and judgeth the law: but and if thou judge the law, thou art not an observer of the law: but a judge.

Wherefore, lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and all backbiting:

namely, them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise the rulers. Presumptuous are they, and stubborn, and fear not to speak evil of them that are in authority;

Likewise these dreamers defile the flesh, despise rulers, and speak evil of them that are in authority.

And I heard a loud voice saying, "In heaven is now made salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: For he is cast down which accused them before God day and night:

With

And Cain talked with Abel his brother. And as soon as they were in the fields, Cain fell upon Abel his brother and slew him.

And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in his heart, "The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my brother Jacob."

When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak one kind word unto him.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart but shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour: that thou bear not sin for his sake.

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

Evil will stirreth up strife; but love covereth the multitude of sins.

An enemy dissembleth with his lips, and in the mean season he imagineth mischief;

Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers,

Therefore let us keep holiday, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of maliciousness and wickedness - but with the sweet bread of pureness and truth.

Brethren, be not children in wit. Howbeit, as concerning maliciousness be children: but in wit be perfect.

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.

For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

and not be as Cain, which was of the devil and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? For his own deeds were evil, and his brother's righteous.

General references

"Thou shalt bear no false witness against thy neighbor.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another.