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Ephesians 4:31

James Moffatt - New Testament

Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice;

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but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk!

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry —

Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh to them.

But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that — and be false to the truth.

Be angry but do not sin; never let the sun set upon your exasperation,

we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.

[For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder —

Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.

Besides, they become idle unconsciously by gadding about from one house to another — and not merely idle but gossips and busybodies, repeating things they have no right to mention.

idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit,

So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness,

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now it has come, the salvation and power, the reign of our God and the authority of his Christ! — for the Accuser of our brothers is thrown down, who accused them before God day and night.

Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining within him.

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.

not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

The whole city was thrown into turmoil. The people rushed together, seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple; whereupon the doors were immediately shut.

callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness,

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.




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