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 3:9Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
• Zech 8:16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
• Prov 12:22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
• Rom 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
• Eph 4:15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• Prov 12:17He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
• Prov 8:7For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
• Prov 12:19Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
• Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• Jer 9:3–5“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
• Lev 19:11“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.
• Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
• 1 Tim 4:2through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
• Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• 2 Cor 7:14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
• Ps 52:3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
• 1 Cor 12:12–27For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
• 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
• Titus 1:12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
• Isa 59:3–4For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
• Acts 5:3–4But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Prov 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
• 1 Cor 10:17Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
• Ps 119:29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
• Zech 8:19Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
• Hos 4:2There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
• Isa 63:8For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
• Prov 21:6Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• Isa 9:15The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
• Eph 5:30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
• 1 Kgs 13:18He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

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