Ephesians 4:25

Modern English Version

Therefore, putting away lying, let every man speak truthfully with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

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

Psalm 119:29

Remove from me the way of lying, and graciously teach me Your law.

Psalm 15:2

He who walks uprightly, and does righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart;

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good, and lying rather than speaking what is right.   Selah

Exodus 23:7

Keep far away from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

Proverbs 12:17

A truthful witness tells what is right, but a false witness, deceit.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips will endure forever, but a lying tongue will endure for a moment.

Proverbs 12:22

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

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

Proverbs 24:28

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

Proverbs 6:17

a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 8:7

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

Isaiah 63:8

For He said, “Surely they are My people, sons who will not lie.” So He became their Savior.

Isaiah 9:15

The elder and honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and killing, and stealing and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Leviticus 19:11

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

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things you will do: Speak truth each to his neighbor, and make judgments in your gates that are for truth, and justice, and peace.

Zechariah 8:19

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: The fast during the fourth and fifth months, and the fasts during the seventh and tenth months, will become rejoicing and joy and pleasant feasts for the house of Judah. So love what brings truth and peace.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 12:5

so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and all are parts of one another.

1 Corinthians 10:17

For we, being many, are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.

2 Corinthians 7:14

So I am not ashamed if I have boasted of anything to him regarding you. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even our boasting in the presence of Titus is found to be true.

Ephesians 4:15

But, speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him, who is the head, Christ Himself,

Ephesians 4:22

that you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outbursts, and blasphemies, with all malice, be taken away from you.

Ephesians 5:30

For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

Colossians 3:8

But now you must also put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, and filthy language out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie one to another, since you have put off the old nature with its deeds,

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for practicing homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for anything else that is contrary to sound teaching,

1 Timothy 4:2

speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their consciences seared with a hot iron,

Titus 1:12

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons!”

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began,

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are encompassed with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

James 1:21

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices a lie.

Judges 16:11

He said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have never been used, then I will become weak and be like an ordinary man.”