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 also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
• Eccl 7:9Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
• Titus 3:2–3to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
• 1 Pet 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Jas 1:19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Col 3:19Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
• Jas 3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• 1 Jn 3:12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
• Lev 19:16–18“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
• Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
• Prov 26:20For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
• Ps 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• Jas 4:11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• Prov 14:17He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
• Rom 1:29–30being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
• Titus 1:7For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• Prov 26:24–25A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
• Prov 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
• Gal 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
• Prov 18:8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
• 1 Tim 3:11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• 1 Tim 6:4–5he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
• 1 Tim 5:13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• Prov 6:19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
• Gen 4:8Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
• Gen 27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
• Gen 37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
• Ps 64:3who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
• Ps 50:20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
• Ps 140:11An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Ps 15:3He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
• Rom 3:14“whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
• 2 Sam 19:27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.
• Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

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