American Standard Version
Ephesians 4:31
31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 4:31 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
- New International Version (NIV)Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
Context of Ephesians 4:31
29Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. 30And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: 32and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
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Πᾶσα πικρία καὶ θυμὸς καὶ ὀργὴ καὶ κραυγὴ καὶ βλασφημία ἀρθήτω ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν σὺν πάσῃ κακίᾳ.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Ephesians 4:31
- Psalms 64:3Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
- Romans 3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
- Colossians 3:8but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:
- James 3:14But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
- Ephesians 4:26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
- Proverbs 14:17He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.
- Proverbs 19:12The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
- 2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
- Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
- 2 Timothy 2:23But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.
- James 1:19Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
- James 4:1Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
- 2 Samuel 19:43And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 20:1And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
- Proverbs 29:9If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.
Commentaries on Ephesians 4:31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 31Let all bitterness - . It is astonishing that any who profess the Christian name should indulge bitterness of spirit. Those who are censorious, who are unmerciful to the failings of others, who have fixed a certain standard by which they measure all persons in all circumstances, and unchristian every one that does not come up to this standard, these have the bitterness against which the apostle speaks. In the last century there was a compound medicine…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 31Let all bitterness - see the notes on Ephesians 4:2. And wrath - The word here does not differ essentially from anger. Anger - see the note on Ephesians 4:26. All cherished, unreasonable anger. And clamour - Noise, disorder, high words; such as men use in a brawl, or when they are excited. Christians are to be calm and serious. Harsh contentions and strifes; hoarse brawls and tumults, are to be unknown among them. And evil-speaking - Slander, backbiting…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 29-32Verses 29-32 Filthy words proceed from corruption in the speaker, and they corrupt the minds and manners of those who hear them: Christians should beware of all such discourse. It is the duty of Christians to seek, by the blessing of God, to bring persons to think seriously, and to encourage and warn believers by their conversation. Be ye kind one to another. This sets forth the principle of love in the heart, and the outward expression of it, in a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-32Paul gives believers specific guidelines for living a new life in Christ.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3131. 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…Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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