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Bible in Basic English

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

New American Standard Bible

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

King James Version

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Holman Bible

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

International Standard Version

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.

A Conservative Version

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

American Standard Version

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Amplified

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander be put away from you, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence].

An Understandable Version

So, put away from you all [kinds of] bitterness and anger and wrath and brawling and slander, along with all [kinds of] malice [i.e., bad attitudes],

Anderson New Testament

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

Common New Testament

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Daniel Mace New Testament

banish all resentment and indignation, anger, vehemence, detraction, and every thing like malice.

Darby Translation

Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

Godbey New Testament

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil.

Goodspeed New Testament

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

John Wesley New Testament

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice.

Julia Smith Translation

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

King James 2000

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Lexham Expanded Bible

All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.

Modern King James verseion

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

Moffatt New Testament

Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice;

Montgomery New Testament

Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice;

NET Bible

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

New Heart English Bible

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Noyes New Testament

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evilspeaking, be put away from you, with all malice;

Sawyer New Testament

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

The Emphasized Bible

All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice.

Webster

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Weymouth New Testament

Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--and also every kind of malice.

Williams New Testament

You must remove all bitterness, rage, anger, loud threats, and insults, with all malice.

World English Bible

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Worrell New Testament

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling, be put away from you, with all wickedness;

Worsley New Testament

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and fury, and clamor, and calumny, be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind one to another,

Youngs Literal Translation

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Let
αἴρω 
Airo 
take up, take away, take, away with, lift up, bear,
Usage: 52

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704
Usage: 704

πικρία 
Pikria 
Usage: 4

and







and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

θυμός 
Thumos 
Usage: 18

ὀργή 
Orge 
Usage: 35

κραυγή 
Krauge 
Usage: 5

βλασφημία 
Blasphemia 
Usage: 13

be put away
αἴρω 
Airo 
take up, take away, take, away with, lift up, bear,
Usage: 52

ἀπό 
Apo 
from, of, out of, for, off, by, at, in, since 9, on, not tr., .
Usage: 490

you
ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

with
σύν 
sun 
Usage: 120

Devotionals

Devotionals about Ephesians 4:31

Images Ephesians 4:31

Context Readings

Old Behavior, New Behavior, And Motivation

30 And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation. 31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts; 32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.


Cross References

Colossians 3:8

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Proverbs 14:17

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

Romans 3:14

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

James 1:19

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

1 Peter 2:1

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

Genesis 4:8

And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.

Genesis 27:41

So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

Genesis 37:4

And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

Genesis 37:21

But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.

Leviticus 19:16-18

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.

2 Samuel 19:27

He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.

2 Samuel 19:43-2

And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

Psalm 64:3

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

Psalm 140:11

Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

Proverbs 6:19

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

Proverbs 10:12

Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

Proverbs 10:18

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 25:23

As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

Proverbs 26:20

Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.

Proverbs 26:24-25

With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

Jeremiah 6:28

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Jeremiah 9:4

Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

Acts 19:28-29

And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.

Acts 21:30

And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut.

Acts 22:22-23

And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

Romans 1:29-30

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

1 Corinthians 14:20

My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

Galatians 5:20

Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

1 Timothy 3:3

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

1 Timothy 3:11

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

1 Timothy 5:13

And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

1 Timothy 6:4-5

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

2 Timothy 2:23

And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.

2 Timothy 3:3

Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

Titus 1:7

For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;

Titus 2:3

That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Titus 3:2-3

To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

James 3:14-2

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

James 4:11

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

2 Peter 2:10-11

But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

1 John 3:12

Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

1 John 3:15

Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

Jude 1:8-10

In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

Revelation 12:10

And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.

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