Social Unity Forbids Lying
Ephesians 4:25
Why putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.


Let not the eye lie to the foot, nor the foot to the eye. If there be a deep pit, and its mouth covered with reeds shall present to the eye the appearance of solid ground, will not the eye use the foot to ascertain whether it is hollow underneath, or whether it is firm and resists? Will the foot tell a lie, and not the truth as it is? And what again if the eye were to spy a serpent or a wild beast, will it lie to the foot?

( Chrysostom.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

WEB: Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.




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