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 ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Eccl 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Titus 3:2–3To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
• 1 Pet 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Jas 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Col 3:19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
• Jas 3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• Eph 4:26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
• 1 Jn 3:12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
• Lev 19:16–18Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
• Prov 29:22An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
• Prov 26:20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
• Ps 101:5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
• Jas 4:11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• Prov 14:17He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
• Rom 1:29–30Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Prov 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
• Titus 1:7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
• 2 Cor 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• Prov 26:24–25He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
• Prov 25:23The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
• Gal 5:20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
• Prov 18:8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
• 1 Tim 3:11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• 1 Tim 6:4–5He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• 1 Tim 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• Prov 6:19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
• Gen 4:8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
• Gen 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
• Gen 37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
• Ps 64:3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Ps 50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
• Ps 140:11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Ps 15:3He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
• Rom 3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
• 2 Sam 19:27And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
• Prov 29:9If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

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