Ephesians 4:31

Believers are to rid themselves of bitterness, rage, anger, and malice in all forms. The whole cluster of hostile attitudes must be put away.

Cross-references · 40

• Col 3:8But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
• Eccl 7:9Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
• Titus 3:2–3to malign no one, and to be peaceable and gentle, showing full consideration to everyone.
• 1 Pet 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Jas 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
• Col 3:19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
• Jas 3:14But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
• 1 Jn 3:12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
• Lev 19:16–18You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
• Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
• Prov 26:20Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
• Ps 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• Jas 4:11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
• Prov 14:17A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a devious man is hated.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
• Rom 1:29–30They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
• Prov 10:18The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
• Titus 1:7As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• Prov 26:24–25A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.
• Prov 25:23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
• Gal 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
• Prov 18:8The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
• 1 Tim 3:11In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
• 1 Tim 6:4–5he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
• 1 Tim 5:13At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
• Prov 6:19a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
• Gen 4:8Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
• Gen 27:41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
• Gen 37:4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
• Ps 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
• Ps 50:20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• Ps 140:11May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
• Ps 15:3who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,
• Rom 3:14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
• 2 Sam 19:27and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
• Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.

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