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

Their words cut like swords, and their cruel remarks sting like sharp arrows.

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. (Psalm 10:7)

Now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech out of your mouth.

If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.

Wrath

Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down upon your anger (rage).

He who is quick-tempered deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion but his favor is like dew upon the grass.

Do not be quick in your spirit (mind) (figurative heart) to be angry. Anger rests in the bosom of fools.

I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects,

Now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech out of your mouth.

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing they produce quarrels (controversy) (fighting).

The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain.

You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.

If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

Clamour

The Israelites replied: We have ten times as many claims on King David as you have! We know he is one of you. Why do you look down on us? Do not forget that we were the first to talk about bringing the king back! The men of Judah were more violent in making their claims than the men of Israel.

A worthless character named Sheba son of Bikri lived at Gilgal. He was of the tribe of Benjamin. He blew the trumpet and called out: Down with David! We will not follow him! Men of Israel, let us go home!

If a wise man disputes with a foolish man, whether the fool rages or laughs, there is no rest.

When they heard this they were filled with anger. They shouted: Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

The entire city was aroused, and the people ran together from all directions. They laid hold on Paul and dragged him out of the Temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

The people listened to Paul until he said this. Then they shouted at the top of their voices: Away with him! Kill him! He is not fit to live!

not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

he is proud, knows nothing, has a morbid interest in questions and disputes about words, which leads to envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

Never gossip. Never endanger your neighbor's life. I am Jehovah.

He told you lies about me. My lord the king is like an angel of God. Do what you think is right.

The one who does not malign with his tongue, do evil to a friend, or bring disgrace on his neighbor or close friend.

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

I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor. I will not tolerate anyone with a conceited look or arrogant heart.

Do not let slanderers prosper on earth. Let evil hunt down violent people with one blow after another.

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

Truly a fool hides hatred with lying lips, and speaks slander.

The words of a talebearer cause wounds. They plunge down to the innermost parts.

The north wind drives away rain. So does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Without wood the fire goes out. Without a talebearer strife ceases.

All of them are stubborn rebels. They go about telling false stories. They are copper and iron. They are all corrupt, all of them!

Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor. Do not trust any brother because every brother deals craftily (cunningly), and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

Women in like manner must be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

They also learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossipers and busybodies, speaking things that they should not.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good,

Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine.

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

Brothers, do not speak against each other. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.

This is primarily for those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble at glorious ones but speak abusively.

In like manner these men also in their dreams defile the flesh, reject authority and speak evil of glorious ones.

I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now has come the salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power (authority) of his Christ: for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night.

With

While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them. They hated Joseph and could not speak to him in a friendly way.

Never hate your brother in your heart. Be sure to correct your neighbor so that you will not be guilty of sinning along with him.

Absalom hated Amnon so much because he raped his sister Tamar. He would not speak to him anymore.

Hatred stirs up strife. Love covers all sins.

He who hates disguises with his lips, and stores deceit within him.

Do not be quick in your spirit (mind) (figurative heart) to be angry. Anger rests in the bosom of fools.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

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

Brothers, do not be like children in understanding. When it comes to evil be innocent children but in your thinking be mature adults.

Now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech out of your mouth.

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

We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.

General references

Do not (lie) accuse anyone falsely.

Be merciful even as your Father is merciful.

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