Ephesians 4:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Ephesians 4:31 —

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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:

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Commentary

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 abov…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. bitterness--both of spirit and of speech: opposed to “kind.” wrath--passion for a time: opposed to “tender-hearted.” Whence Bengel translates for “wrath,” harshness. anger--lasting resentment: opposed to “forgiving one another.” clamour--compared by Chrysostom to a horse carrying anger for its rider: “Bridle the horse, and you dismount its rider.” “Bitterness” begets “wrath”; “wrath,” “anger”;…