Ephesians 4:25

Ephesians 4:25 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.

Context of Ephesians 4:25

23to be renewed in the spirit of your minds; 24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another. 26“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger, 27and do not give the devil a foothold.

Ephesians 4:25 word by word

Διὸ ἀποθέμενοι τὸ ψεῦδος λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων μέλη.Read the interlinear

• Thereforeδιόdio · thereforeG1352
• eachἕκαστοςhekastos · eachG1538
• must put offἀποτίθημιapotithēmi · to put asideG659
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• falsehoodψεῦδοςpseudos · lieG5579
• speakλαλέωlaleō · to speakG2980
• truthfullyἀλήθειαalētheia · truthG225
• toμετάmeta · with/afterG3326
• hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• neighborπλησίονplēsion · near/neighborG4139
• forὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• we are allεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• membersμέλοςmelos · memberG3196
• of one anotherἀλλήλωνallēlōn · one anotherG240

Cross-references for Ephesians 4:25

• Leviticus 19:11You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
• 1 Kings 13:18Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
• Psalms 52:3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
• Psalms 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
• Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
• Proverbs 12:19Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
• Proverbs 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
• Isaiah 9:15The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
• Isaiah 63:8For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
• Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
• Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
• John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Acts 5:3Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
• Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
• 1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

Commentaries on Ephesians 4:25

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25Wherefore putting away lying - All falsity, all prevarication, because this is opposite to the truth as it is in Jesus, Ephesians 4:21, and to the holiness of truth, Ephesians 4:24. Speak every man truth with his neighbor - Truth was but of small account among many of even the best heathens, for they taught that on many occasions a lie was to be preferred to the truth itself. Dr. Whitby collects some of their maxims on this head. , · "A lie is better than…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25Wherefore putting away lying - It may seem strange that the apostle should seriously exhort Christians to put away “lying,” implying that they were in the habit of indulging in falsehood. But we are to remember: (1) that lying is the universal vice of the pagan world. Among the ancient pagans, as among the moderns, it was almost universally practiced. It has been remarked by a distinguished jurist who had spent much time in India, that he would not…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-28Verses 25-28 Notice the particulars wherewith we should adorn our Christian profession. Take heed of every thing contrary to truth. No longer flatter or deceive others. God's people are children who will not lie, who dare not lie, who hate and abhor lying. Take heed of anger and ungoverned passions. If there is just occasion to express displeasure at what is wrong, and to reprove, see that it be without sin. We give place to the devil, when the first…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25speak truthfully to his neighbor: (compare Zechariah 8:16). we are all members of one another: (see Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12–13, 27).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. Wherefore--From the general character of "the new man," there will necessarily result the particular features which he now details. putting away--Greek, "having put away" once for all. lying--"falsehood": the abstract. "Speak ye truth each one with his neighbor," is quoted, slightly changed, from Zec 8:16. For "to," Paul quotes it "with," to mark our inner connection with one another, as "members one of another" [Stier]. Not merely members of one…Read the comment

Topics related to Ephesians 4:25

• Church
• Falsehood
• Quotations and Allusions
• Righteous
• Speaking
• Truth
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• Bitterness
• Compact
• Dark
• Forbear
• Grieve
• Lasciviousness
• Lowliness
• Renew
• Steal
• Ephesians, Epistle to the

Commentaries on Ephesians 4

• 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