Ephesians 4:25

New International Version

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

The old prophet answered, “I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the Lord: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” (But he was lying to him.)

Psalm 119:29

Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to me and teach me your law.

Psalm 15:2

The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart;

Psalm 52:3

You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.

Exodus 23:7

Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Proverbs 12:17

An honest witness tells the truth, but a false witness tells lies.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Proverbs 12:22

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.

Proverbs 21:6

A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

Proverbs 24:28

Do not testify against your neighbor without cause— would you use your lips to mislead?

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 8:7

My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness.

Isaiah 63:8

He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will be true to me”; and so he became their Savior.

Isaiah 9:15

the elders and dignitaries are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Hosea 4:2

There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Leviticus 19:11

“ ‘Do not steal. “ ‘Do not lie. “ ‘Do not deceive one another.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts;

Zechariah 8:19

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.”

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 12:5

so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

1 Corinthians 10:17

Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

2 Corinthians 7:14

I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well.

Ephesians 4:15

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Ephesians 4:31

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.

Ephesians 5:30

for we are members of his body.

Colossians 3:8

But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

1 Timothy 4:2

Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

Titus 1:12

One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,

James 1:21

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Judges 16:11

He said, “If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”