Ephesians Chapter 4 verse 31 Holy Bible
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
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Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;
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Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;
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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
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Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,
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Ephesians 4 : 31 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - Let all bitterness; not only in speech, but in mind, disposition, habit. And wrath and anger; nearly synonymous, but perhaps" wrath" is equivalent to the tumultuous excited state of mind, out of which comes anger, the settled feeling of dislike and enmity. And clamor and evil-speaking be put away from you; "clamor," equivalent to the loud noise of strife, the excited shouting down of opponents; "evil-speaking," the more deliberate habit of running down their character, exciting an evil feeling against them in the minds of others. With all malice; equivalent to wishing evil, whether in a more pronounced or in a latent and half-conscious form, whether expressing itself in the way of coarse malediction or lurking in a corner of the heart, as an evil spirit of which we should be ashamed; all are rags of the old man, as disgraceful to Christians as literal rags to a man of position; utterly unworthy of the regenerated child of God. Chrysostom, rather fancifully, treats them as a genealogy: "Bitterness bred wrath, wrath anger, anger clamor, clamor evil-speaking, which is railing."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3 a) In Ephesians 4:31 to Ephesians 5:2, he deals with malignity, as utterly unworthy of the love of God manifested to us in Jesus Christ.(31) Let all bitterness.--There is a similar enumeration in the parallel passage, Colossians 3:8; and in all such catalogues in St. Paul's Epistles, while it is vain to seek for formal and elaborate system, there is always profound method and connection of idea. Here the first symptom of the temper forbidden is "bitterness," or sharpness--a word seldom used, and generally in half-poetical passages (see Acts 8:23; Romans 3:14; Hebrews 12:15)--that is, an acerbity of temper, ready to take offence and break out in anger. The next stage is "wrath and anger," that is, passionate outburst, and the deeper anger of which it is at once effect and cause. (Comp. Romans 2:8; Colossians 3:8; Revelation 19:15.) In these the smouldering bitterness kindles into flame. The last stage is "clamour and evil speaking"--"clamour" (used in this sense only here) being the loud fury of the first burst of wrath, passing into the more deliberate evil-speaking, as the temper cools down without losing its settled anger. . . .
