Ephesians 4:31

New American Bible - revised edition

All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice.

Cross References

Genesis 27:41

Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. Esau said to himself, “Let the time of mourning for my father come, so that I may kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 37:21

But when Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from their hands, saying: “We must not take his life.”

Genesis 37:4

When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his brothers, they hated him so much that they could not say a kind word to him.

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out in the field.” When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom said nothing, good or bad, to Amnon; but Absalom hated Amnon for having humiliated his sister Tamar. Absalom’s Plot.

2 Samuel 19:27

He replied: “My lord king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said to him, ‘Saddle the donkey for me, that I may ride on it and go with the king’; your servant is lame.

2 Samuel 19:43

All the Judahites replied to the men of Israel: “Because the king is our relative. Why are you angry over this? Have we had anything to eat at the king’s expense? Or have portions from his table been given to us?”

Psalm 101:5

Whoever slanders a neighbor in secret I will reduce to silence. Haughty eyes and arrogant hearts I cannot endure.

Psalm 140:11

Drop burning coals upon them; cast them into the watery pit never more to rise.

Psalm 15:3

Who does not slander with his tongue, does no harm to a friend, never defames a neighbor;

Psalm 37:8

Refrain from anger; abandon wrath; do not be provoked; it brings only harm.

Psalm 50:20

You sit and speak against your brother, slandering your mother’s son.

Psalm 64:3

Hide me from the malicious crowd, the mob of evildoers.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up disputes, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 10:18

Whoever conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Proverbs 14:17

The quick-tempered make fools of themselves, and schemers are hated.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a talebearer are like dainty morsels: they sink into one’s inmost being.

Proverbs 19:12

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

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Proverbs 26:20

Without wood the fire dies out; without a talebearer strife subsides.

Proverbs 29:22

The ill-tempered stir up strife, and the hotheaded cause many sins.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise person disputes with a fool, there is railing and ridicule but no resolution.

Proverbs 6:19

The false witness who utters lies, and the one who sows discord among kindred.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not let anger upset your spirit, for anger lodges in the bosom of a fool.

Jeremiah 6:28

Arch-rebels are they all, dealers in slander, bronze and iron, all of them, destroyers they are.

Jeremiah 9:4

Each one deceives the other, no one speaks the truth. They have accustomed their tongues to lying, they are perverse and cannot repent.

Acts 21:30

The whole city was in turmoil with people rushing together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the gates were closed.

Romans 3:14

their mouths are full of bitter cursing.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, 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 may find you not such as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; that there may be rivalry, jealousy, fury, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions,

Ephesians 4:22

that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires,

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger,

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and avoid any bitterness toward them.

Colossians 3:8

But now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths.

1 Timothy 3:11

Women, similarly, should be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in everything.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 5:13

And furthermore, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies as well, talking about things that ought not to be mentioned.

2 Timothy 2:23

Avoid foolish and ignorant debates, for you know that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 3:3

callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,

Titus 1:7

For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain,

Titus 2:3

Similarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to drink, teaching what is good,

James 1:19

Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,

James 3:14

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

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or 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

Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander;

1 John 3:12

unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who 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 say: “Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed. For the accuser of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our God day and night.