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Let all bitternessy, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speakingz, be put away from you, with all malice:

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Col. 3:8• ⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

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Titus 3:2• ²to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men. (Titus 3:2)

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bitterness.

Psa. 64:3• ³Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word; (Psa. 64:3)

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Rom. 3:14• ¹⁴whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; (Rom. 3:14)

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Col. 3:8,19• ⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.
¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. (Col. 3:8,19)

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James 3:14‑15• ¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish. (James 3:14‑15)

wrath.

Eph. 4:26• ²⁶Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath, (Eph. 4:26)

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Prov. 14:17• ¹⁷He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly, and a man of mischievous devices is hated. (Prov. 14:17)

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Prov. 19:12• ¹²The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. (Prov. 19:12)

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Eccl. 7:9• ⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools. (Eccl. 7:9)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:20• ²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion, (Gal. 5:20)

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Col. 3:8• ⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

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2 Tim. 2:23• ²³But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions. (2 Tim. 2:23)

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Titus 1:7• ⁷For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means; (Titus 1:7)

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James 1:19• ¹⁹So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; (James 1:19)

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James 3:14‑18• ¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing.
¹⁷But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.
¹⁸But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace. (James 3:14‑18)

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James 4:1‑2• ¹Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence,--from your pleasures, which war in your members?
²Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not. (James 4:1‑2)

clamour.

2 Sam. 19:43• ⁴³And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, I have ten parts in the king and I have also more right in David than thou; and why didst thou slight me? and was not my advice the first, to bring back my king? And the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel. (2 Sam. 19:43)

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2 Sam. 20:1‑2• ¹And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.
²Then all the men of Israel went up from after David, following Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah clave to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. (2 Sam. 20:1‑2)

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Prov. 29:9,22• ⁹If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, he hath no rest.
²²An angry man exciteth contention; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. (Prov. 29:9,22)

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Acts 19:28‑29• ²⁸And having heard this, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.
²⁹And the whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord to the theatre, having seized and carried off with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow-travellers of Paul. (Acts 19:28‑29)

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Acts 21:30• ³⁰And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut. (Acts 21:30)

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Acts 22:22‑23• ²²And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.
²³And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes, and casting dust into the air, (Acts 22:22‑23)

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1 Tim. 3:3• ³not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money, (1 Tim. 3:3)

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1 Tim. 6:4‑5• ⁴he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions,
⁵constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety. (1 Tim. 6:4‑5)

evil speaking.

Lev. 19:16• ¹⁶Thou shalt not go about as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand up against the life of thy neighbour: I am Jehovah. (Lev. 19:16)

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2 Sam. 19:27• ²⁷And he has slandered thy servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thy sight. (2 Sam. 19:27)

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Psa. 15:3• ³He that slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour; (Psa. 15:3)

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Psa. 50:20• ²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son: (Psa. 50:20)

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Psa. 101:5• ⁵Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer. (Psa. 101:5)

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Psa. 140:11• ¹¹Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin. (Psa. 140:11)

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Prov. 6:19• ¹⁹a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren. (Prov. 6:19)

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Prov. 10:18• ¹⁸He that covereth hatred hath lying lips, and he that sendeth forth a slander is a fool. (Prov. 10:18)

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Prov. 18:8• ⁸The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. (Prov. 18:8)

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Prov. 25:23• ²³The north wind bringeth forth rain, and the angry countenance a backbiting tongue. (Prov. 25:23)

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Prov. 26:20• ²⁰Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth. (Prov. 26:20)

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Jer. 6:28• ²⁸They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters. (Jer. 6:28)

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Jer. 9:4• ⁴Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander. (Jer. 9:4)

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Rom. 1:29‑30• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (Rom. 1:29‑30)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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1 Tim. 5:13• ¹³And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming. (1 Tim. 5:13)

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2 Tim. 3:3• ³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good, (2 Tim. 3:3)

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Titus 2:3• ³that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right; (Titus 2:3)

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Titus 3:2• ²to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men. (Titus 3:2)

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James 4:11• ¹¹Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not doer of the law, but judge. (James 4:11)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings, (1 Peter 2:1)

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2 Peter 2:10‑11• ¹⁰and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:
¹¹when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge. (2 Peter 2:10‑11)

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Jude 8‑10• ⁸Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.
⁹But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a railing judgment against him, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
¹⁰But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves. (Jude 8‑10)

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Rev. 12:10• ¹⁰And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren has been cast out, who accused them before our God day and night: (Rev. 12:10)

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Gen. 4:8• ⁸And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. (Gen. 4:8)

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Gen. 27:41• ⁴¹And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand, and I will slay my brother Jacob. (Gen. 27:41)

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Gen. 37:4,21• ⁴And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.
²¹And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. (Gen. 37:4,21)

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Lev. 19:17‑18• ¹⁷Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt earnestly rebuke thy neighbour, lest thou bear sin on account of him.
¹⁸Thou shalt not avenge thyself, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am Jehovah. (Lev. 19:17‑18)

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2 Sam. 13:22• ²²And Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had humbled his sister Tamar. (2 Sam. 13:22)

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Prov. 10:12• ¹²Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions. (Prov. 10:12)

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Prov. 26:24‑25• ²⁴He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him:
²⁵when his voice is gracious, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart. (Prov. 26:24‑25)

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Eccl. 7:9• ⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools. (Eccl. 7:9)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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1 Cor. 5:8• ⁸so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:8)

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1 Cor. 14:20• ²⁰Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men. (1 Cor. 14:20)

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Col. 3:8• ⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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1 John 3:12,15• ¹²not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.
¹⁵Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1 John 3:12,15)

• If we come to particulars, “all bitterness;” I think, denotes every form of the sharp, unsparing mood which repels instead of winning souls, and makes the most of the real or imagined faults of others. The “wrath and anger,” next following, refer to the outburst of passion and the more settled, vindictive resentment, to which the indulgence of acrimony gives rise, as “clamor and evil speaking” are their respective counterparts in words: all flowing from the deep-seated fountain of “all malice,” which is finally condemned in our verse. (“Remarks on Ephesians 4:31-32” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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;

W. Kelly Translation

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Let all bitterness and passion and wrath and clamour and evil-speaking be removed from you with all malice;