Ephesians 4:25
Good News Translation
No more lying, then! Each of you must tell the truth to the other believer, because we are all members together in the body of Christ.

New Revised Standard Version
So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another.

Contemporary English Version
We are part of the same body. Stop lying and start telling each other the truth.

New American Bible
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

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Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

putting.

Leviticus 19:11 You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.

1 Kings 13:18 He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

Psalm 52:3 Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Psalm 119:29 Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.

Proverbs 6:17 A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

Proverbs 12:19,22 The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue. . . .

Proverbs 21:6 He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

Isaiah 9:15 The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Isaiah 59:3,4 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity. . . .

Isaiah 63:8 And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not deny: so he became their saviour.

Jeremiah 9:3-5 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

Hosea 4:2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Acts 5:3,4 But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost and by fraud keep part of the price of the land? . . .

Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:

1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,

Titus 1:2,12 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: . . .

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

speak.

Ephesians 4:15 But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

Proverbs 8:7 All my words are just, there is nothing wicked, nor perverse in them.

Proverbs 12:17 He that speaketh that which he knoweth, sheweth forth justice: but he that lieth, is a deceitful witness.

Zechariah 8:16,19 These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates. . . .

2 Corinthians 7:14 And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth.

Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

for.

Ephesians 5:30 Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.

Romans 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members one of another:

1 Corinthians 10:17 For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ. . . .

Context
New Life in Christ
24And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth. 25Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another. 26Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:7
Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.

Psalm 15:2
He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

Proverbs 24:28
Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Zechariah 8:16
These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates.

Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members one of another:

Ephesians 4:15
But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

Ephesians 4:22
To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

Colossians 3:8
But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:9
Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

Hebrews 12:1
And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 1:21
Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

Ephesians 4:24
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