Ephesians 4:25

Because believers belong to one another, they must put away lying and speak truth. New-self living shows itself first in honest speech.

Cross-references · 32

• Col 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
• Zech 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
• Prov 12:22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
• Rom 12:5so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
• Eph 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
• Prov 12:17He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.
• Prov 8:7For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
• Prov 12:19Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Jer 9:3–5“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
• Lev 19:11You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
• Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
• 1 Tim 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
• Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• 2 Cor 7:14Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.
• Ps 52:3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
• 1 Cor 12:12–27The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.
• 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
• Titus 1:12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
• Isa 59:3–4For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
• Acts 5:3–4Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
• Prov 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
• 1 Cor 10:17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
• Ps 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
• Zech 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
• Hos 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
• Isa 63:8For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
• Prov 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
• John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Isa 9:15The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.
• Eph 5:30For we are members of His body.
• 1 Kgs 13:18Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,

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