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 3:9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
• Zech 8:16These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
• Prov 12:22Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
• Rom 12:5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
• Eph 4:15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
• Prov 12:17He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
• Prov 8:7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
• Prov 12:19The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
• Rev 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Jer 9:3–5And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
• Lev 19:11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
• Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
• 1 Tim 4:2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
• Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• 2 Cor 7:14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
• Ps 52:3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
• 1 Cor 12:12–27For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
• 1 Tim 1:10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
• Titus 1:12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
• Isa 59:3–4For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
• Acts 5:3–4But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Prov 6:17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
• 1 Cor 10:17For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
• Ps 119:29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
• Zech 8:19Thus saith 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 to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
• Hos 4:2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
• Isa 63:8For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
• Prov 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
• John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• Isa 9:15The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
• Eph 5:30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
• 1 Kgs 13:18He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

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