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

bitterness.

Psalm 64:3 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

Romans 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Colossians 3:8,19 But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth. . . .

James 3:14,15 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

wrath.

Ephesians 4:26 Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.

Proverbs 14:17 The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.

Proverbs 19:12 As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,

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

2 Timothy 2:23 And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

James 1:19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

James 3:14-18 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

James 4:1,2 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? . . .

clamour.

2 Samuel 19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:1,2 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings, O Israel. . . .

Proverbs 29:9,22 If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest. . . .

Acts 19:28,29 Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians! . . .

Acts 21:30 And he whole city was in an uproar: and the people ran together. And taking Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut.

Acts 22:22,23 And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit that he should live. . . .

1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

1 Timothy 6:4,5 He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions, . . .

evil speaking.

Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

2 Samuel 19:27 Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord the king: but thou my lord the king art as an angel of God, do what pleaseth thee.

Psalm 15:3 He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.

Psalm 50:20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Psalm 101:5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

Psalm 140:11 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

Proverbs 6:19 My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Proverbs 10:18 In the multitude of words there shall not want sin: but he that refraineth his lips, is most wise.

Proverbs 18:8 The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.

Proverbs 25:23 The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

Proverbs 26:20 When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.

Jeremiah 6:28 All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

Jeremiah 9:4 Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Romans 1:29,30 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, . . .

1 Timothy 3:11 The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 5:13 And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

2 Timothy 3:3 Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,

Titus 2:3 The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.

James 4:11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

2 Peter 2:10,11 And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming. . . .

Jude 1:8-10 In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty. . . .

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.

with.

Genesis 4:8 And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.

Genesis 27:41 Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.

Genesis 37:4,21 And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated hem, and could not speak peaceably to him. . . .

Leviticus 19:17,18 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him. . . .

2 Samuel 13:22 But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.

Proverbs 10:12 In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.

Proverbs 26:24,25 An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit. . . .

Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

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

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 John 3:12,15 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just. . . .

Context
New Life in Christ
30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice. 32And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.…
Cross References
Psalm 37:8
Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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

Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

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

Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.

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

Lexicon
Get rid of
ἀρθήτω (arthētō)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 142: To raise, lift up, take away, remove.

all
Πᾶσα (Pasa)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

bitterness,
πικρία (pikria)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 4088: Bitterness, harshness, hence met: an embittered (resentful) spirit. From pikros; acridity, literally or figuratively.

rage
θυμὸς (thymos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2372: An outburst of passion, wrath. From thuo; passion.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

anger,
ὀργὴ (orgē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3709: From oregomai; properly, desire, i.e., violent passion (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment.

outcry
κραυγὴ (kraugē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2906: (a) a shout, cry, clamor, (b) outcry, clamoring against another. From krazo; an outcry.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

slander,
βλασφημία (blasphēmia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 988: Abusive or scurrilous language, blasphemy. From blasphemos; vilification.

along with
σὺν (syn)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 4862: With. A primary preposition denoting union; with or together.

every form
πάσῃ (pasē)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

of malice.
κακίᾳ (kakia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2549: From kakos; badness, i.e. depravity, or malignity, or trouble.


Additional Translations
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

Let all bitterness, and rage, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be removed from you, along with all malice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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