Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
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In Context
30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Cross References
Genesis 27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 37:21Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
2 Samuel 13:22Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
2 Samuel 19:43The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
Psalms 50:20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Psalms 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
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 →