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Ephesians 4:31

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice.

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The whole city was stirred, and the people quickly collected, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple, when the doors were immediately shut.

'And their mouths are full of bitter curses.'

Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.

Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.

Idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, 'you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.' For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.

'Be angry, yet do not sin.' Do not let the sun go down upon your anger;

Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly.

You, however, must now lay aside all such things--anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse.

It should be the same with the women. They should be serious, not gossips, sober, and trustworthy in all respects.

not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money;

And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busy-bodies, and talk of what they ought not.

Shun foolish and ignorant discussions, for you know that they only breed quarrels;

incapable of affection, merciless, slanderous, wanting in self-control, brutal, careless of the right,

For a Presiding-Officer, as God's steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making.

So, too, that the older women should be reverent in their demeanor, and that they should avoid scandal, and beware of becoming slaves to drink;

Mark this, my dear Brothers--Let every one be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry;

But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the Truth.

Do not disparage one another, Brothers. He who disparages his Brother, or passes judgment on his Brother, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting,

We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother's was good.

Every one who hates his Brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has Immortal Life within him.

And I heard a loud voice in Heaven which said-- 'Now has begun the day of the Salvation, and Power, and Dominion of our God, and the Rule of his Christ; for the Accuser of our Brothers has been hurled down, he who has been accusing them before our God day and night.




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