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

With

General references

Exodus 20:16

Luke 6:36

1 John 4:11

Bible References

Bitterness

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

Wrath

"Be angry, and do not sin." Do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

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

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you do not desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?

Clamour

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel."

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

When they heard this they were filled with anger, and began to shout, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians."

All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he is not fit to live."

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

"'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.

He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

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

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

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

Without wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, contention ceases.

"They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

"Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all slander,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

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Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

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

Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

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

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

General references

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.