Ephesians 4:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

Then the other said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, ‘Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat food and drink water.’ ” But he was deceiving him.

Psalm 119:29

Put false ways far from me, and graciously teach me your law.

Psalm 15:2

Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right and speak the truth from their heart;

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Proverbs 12:17

Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness speaks deceitfully.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only 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 and a snare of death.

Proverbs 24:28

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

Proverbs 6:17

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

Proverbs 8:7

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

Isaiah 63:8

For he said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not act deceitfully,” and he became their savior

Isaiah 9:15

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

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Leviticus 19:11

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

Zechariah 8:19

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah; therefore love truth and peace.”

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. 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 according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 12:5

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.

1 Corinthians 10:17

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have been somewhat boastful about you to him, I was not put to shame, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved true as well.

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Ephesians 4:22

to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,

Ephesians 4:31

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

Colossians 3:8

But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices

1 Timothy 1:10

the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

Titus 1:12

It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said, “Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons.”

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

James 1:21

Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

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

Judges 16:11

He said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like anyone else.”