Ephesians 4:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and railing, be put away from you, 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice.

Ephesians 4:31 Cross References

Genesis 27:41

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Genesis 37:21

And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said, Let us not take his life.

Genesis 37:4

And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Genesis 4:8

And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom spake unto Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 19:27

And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.

2 Samuel 19:43

And 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.

Psalm 101:5

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy: Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

Psalm 140:11

An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Psalm 15:3

He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Psalm 37:8

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.

Psalm 50:20

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Psalm 64:3

Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words:

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirreth up strifes: But love covereth all transgressions.

Proverbs 10:18

He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

Proverbs 14:17

He that is soon angry will deal foolishly: And a man of wicked devices is hated.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a whisperer are as dainty, morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind bringeth forth rain: So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goeth out: And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

Proverbs 6:19

A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

Jeremiah 9:4

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will go about with slanders.

Acts 21:30

And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and straightway the doors were shut.

Romans 3:14

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in mind: howbeit in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

1 Corinthians 5:8

wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For 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 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies,

Ephesians 4:22

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

Ephesians 4:25

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

Ephesians 4:26

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Colossians 3:8

But now put ye also away all these; anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

1 Timothy 3:11

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3:3

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

1 Timothy 5:13

And withal they learn also to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Titus 1:7

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Titus 2:3

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

James 4:11

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

1 Peter 2:1

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

1 John 3:12

not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

1 John 3:15

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Revelation 12:10

And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accuseth them before our God day and night.