Ephesians 4:31

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 27:41

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 37:21

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

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 peaceably to him.

Genesis 4:8

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

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom would not speak with Amnon, either pleasantly or angrily; but Absalom hated Amnon because he had raped his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 19:27

But he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Still my lord the king is as the angel of God, so do what seems best to you.

2 Samuel 19:43

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, “We have ten shares in the king. Therefore we also have more claim on David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

Psalm 101:5

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

Psalm 140:11

Let not a slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Psalm 15:3

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

Psalm 37:8

Let go of anger and forsake wrath; fret not—it leads only to evil.

Psalm 50:20

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

Psalm 64:3

who sharpen their tongues like a sword, and aim bitter words like arrows,

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 10:18

He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who utters slander is a fool.

Proverbs 14:17

He who is quick-tempered acts foolishly, and a man of evil schemes is hated.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a slanderer are like tasty morsels; they go down into the innermost parts of the heart.

Proverbs 19:12

The wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

Proverbs 26:20

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirs up strife, and a temperamental man abounds in transgression.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man contends with a fool, the fool rages and laughs, and there is no rest.

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry, for anger settles in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 6:28

They all are stubborn rebels walking about practicing slander. They are bronze and iron; they all are corrupters.

Jeremiah 9:4

Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother supplants, and every neighbor walks about with slanders.

Acts 21:30

Then the whole city was provoked, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. And immediately the doors were shut.

Romans 3:14

“their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

1 Corinthians 14:20

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

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, nor with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish. I fear there are debates, envying, wrath, strife, backbiting, whispering, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, rage, selfishness, dissensions, heresies,

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 4:25

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

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.

Colossians 3:8

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

1 Timothy 3:11

Likewise, the women must be honorable, not slanderers, sober, and faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money, but patient, not argumentative, not covetous;

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idle, and not only idle, wandering around from house to house, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they ought not.

2 Timothy 2:23

But avoid foolish and unlearned debates, knowing that they create strife.

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, unrestrained, fierce, despisers of those who are good,

Titus 1:7

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not easily angered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,

Titus 2:3

Likewise, older women should be reverent in behavior, and not be false accusers, not be enslaved to much wine, but teachers of good things,

James 1:19

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

1 Peter 2:1

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

1 John 3:12

not like Cain, who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s works were righteous.

1 John 3:15

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

Revelation 12:10

Then 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, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.