31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. …
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-32)The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the Eph. 2:16; there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life, and that both more general (Eph. 4:17-24) and in several particular instances, Eph. 4:25-32. This is solemnly introduced: “ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord ; that is, seeing the matter is as abo…
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