Ephesians 4:31

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

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

— WEB

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

— KJV

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

— ASV

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Colossians 3:8 "but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth."
Ecclesiastes 7:9 "Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools."
Titus 3:2-3 "to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men."
1 Peter 2:1 "Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,"
James 1:19 "So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;"
James 3:14 "But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth."
Colossians 3:19 "Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them."
Ephesians 4:26 "“Be angry, and don’t sin.”Psalm 4:4 Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,"

Commentary

bitterness--both of spirit and of speech: opposed to "kind." wrath--passion for a time: opposed to "tender-hearted." Whence BENGEL translates for "wrath," harshness. anger--lasting resentment: opposed to "forgiving one another." clamour--compared by CHRYSOSTOM to a horse carrying anger for its rider: "Bridle the horse, and you dismount its rider." "Bitterness" begets "wrath"; "wrath," "anger"; "anger," "clamor"; and "clamor," the more chronic "evil-speaking," slander, insinuations, and surmises of evil. "Malice" is the secret root of all: "fires fed within, and not appearing to by-standers from without, are the most formidable" [CHRYSOSTOM].

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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