Ephesians 4:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil-speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will, or baseness of any kind).

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Common English Bible

³¹ Put aside all bitterness, losing your temper, anger, shouting, and slander, along with every other evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and outcry and blasphemy be taken away from you, along with all malice.

Ephesians 4:31 Cross References

Colossians 3:8

But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

Psalm 101:5

One who secretly slanders a neighbor I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not tolerate.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

Titus 1:7

For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Timothy 3:11

Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

Proverbs 29:22

One given to anger stirs up strife, and the hothead causes much transgression.

Proverbs 14:17

One who is quick-tempered acts foolishly, and the schemer is hated.

Proverbs 10:18

Lying lips conceal hatred, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions,

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Romans 3:14

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Proverbs 6:19

a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.

Psalm 140:11

Do not let the slanderer be established in the land; let evil speedily hunt down the violent!

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 50:20

You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother’s child.

Psalm 15:3

who do not slander with their tongue and do no evil to their friends nor heap shame upon their neighbors;

2 Samuel 19:27

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

Genesis 37:4

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 27:41

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Revelation 12:10

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

1 John 3:15

All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.

Titus 2:3

Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,

2 Timothy 2:23

Have nothing to do with stupid and senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

Acts 21:30

Then all the city was aroused, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

Proverbs 29:9

If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.

Proverbs 19:12

A king’s anger is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

2 Samuel 19:43

But the people of Israel answered the people of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the people of Judah were fiercer than the words of the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon because he had raped his sister Tamar.

Genesis 37:21

But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”

2 Timothy 3:3

unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,

Jeremiah 9:4

Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin, for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.

Psalm 37:8

Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret—it leads only to evil.

Ephesians 4:22

to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,

Ephesians 4:25

So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.