"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" — Ephesians 4:31

Ephesians 4:31 · KJV

“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”

— Ephesians 4:31

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 4 — Context

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. {to...: or, to edify profitably}

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:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Cross References

Colossians 3:8

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Titus 3:2-3

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, {but} gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

1 Peter 2:1

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

James 1:19

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.

Ephesians 4:26

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: