Ephesians 4:31
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
- KJV
- Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
- WEB
- Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
- ASV
- Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
- DARBY
- Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;
- BLB
- Let all bitterness and rage and wrath and outcry and slander be removed from you⁺, with all malice.
- ÅB
- Allslags bitterhet og hissighet og vrede og skrik og spott være langt borte fra dere, slik som all ondskap;
- OTB
- La all bitterhet, vrede, sinne, skrål og baktalelse bli fjernet fra dere, sammen med all ondskap.
- B1930
- Allslags bitterhet og hissighet og vrede og skrik og spott være langt borte fra eder, likesom all ondskap;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:9
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Read in contextTitus 3:2–3
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Read in context1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Read in contextJames 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Read in contextColossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Read in contextJames 3:14–4:2
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Read in contextEphesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
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