Ephesians 4:31

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Colossians 3:8

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

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

1 Peter 2:1

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

James 1:19

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Ephesians 4:26

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

1 John 3:12

We should not be like Cain, who was of 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

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, 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 an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Timothy 3:11

Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

2 Corinthians 12:20

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

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Proverbs 29:22

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 14:17

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Proverbs 10:18

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, 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 idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Romans 3:14

“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings forth 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 false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 140:11

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

Psalm 64:3

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

Psalm 50:20

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Psalm 15:3

who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

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 peacefully 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 spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Revelation 12:10

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

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Titus 2:3

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

2 Timothy 2:23

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

1 Timothy 3:3

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

Acts 21:30

Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates 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 a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

Proverbs 19:12

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

2 Samuel 19:43

And the men of Israel answered the men 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 men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 13:22

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

Genesis 37:21

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

2 Timothy 3:3

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

Jeremiah 9:4

Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Psalm 37:8

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

Ephesians 4:22

to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.