Ephesians 4:31

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

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

In Context

30And do not grieve God’s Holy Spirit; for it was through that Spirit that God sealed you as his, against the day of redemption.

32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, ready to forgive one another, just as God, in Christ, forgave you.

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Cross References

Genesis 27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. Esau said to himself, “My father will soon die; then I will kill Jacob, my brother.”

Genesis 37:21Rueben, however, when he heard it, saved him from their hands by saying, “Let us not take his life.”

Psalms 50:20You shamefully speak of your kin, and slander your own mother’s son.

Psalms 101:5Who slanders their neighbor in secret, I bring them to silence: haughty looks and proud hearts I will not abide.

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:18-32

Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. ( a. d. 61.) 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not… Read the whole commentary →

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