Ephesians 4:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Therefore, rejecting all falsity and being done now with it, let everyone express the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one body and members one of another. [Zech. 8:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Therefore, after you have gotten rid of lying, “Each of you must tell the truth to your neighbor” because we are parts of each other in the same body.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Because of this, setting aside lying, speak the truth, each one with his neighbor. For we are all part of one another.

Ephesians 4:25 Cross References

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Romans 12:5

so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Ephesians 4:15

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Proverbs 12:17

He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

Proverbs 8:7

for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life which God, who never lies, promised ages ago

1 Timothy 4:2

through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared,

Leviticus 19:11

“You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.

1 Timothy 1:10

immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.

Titus 1:12

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

1 Corinthians 10:17

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Zechariah 8:19

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.

Hosea 4:2

there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.

Isaiah 63:8

For he said, Surely they are my people, sons who will not deal falsely; and he became their Savior.

Isaiah 9:15

the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalm 119:29

Put false ways far from me; and graciously teach me thy law!

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

1 Kings 13:18

And he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he lied to him.

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not slay the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Psalm 15:2

He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right, and speaks truth from his heart;

Proverbs 24:28

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

Ephesians 4:22

Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice,

Colossians 3:8

But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

James 1:21

Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1

So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander.

Judges 16:11

And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”