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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 do ye also put off the whole: 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, to be uncontentious, gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. (Titus 3:2)

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bitterness.

Psa. 64:3• ³Who have sharpened like the sword their tongue,{HR}Have bent 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 do ye also put off the whole: 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 faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal. (James 3:14‑15)

wrath.

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

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Prov. 14:17• ¹⁷One soon angry dealeth foolishly,{HR}And a man of mischievous devices is hated. (Prov. 14:17)

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Prov. 19:12• ¹²The king's wrath [is] as a lion's roaring;{HR}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 angry:{HR}For anger resteth in the bosom of fools. (Eccl. 7:9)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:20• ²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties, (Gal. 5:20)

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Col. 3:8• ⁸But now do ye also put off the whole: wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

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

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Titus 1:7• ⁷For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not passionate, not quarrelsome, not a striker, not a seeker of base lucre; (Titus 1:7)

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James 1:19• ¹⁹Ye know [it], my brethren beloved, but 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 faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal.
¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed.
¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, uncontentious, impartial.
¹⁸And righteousness' fruit in peace is being sown for those that make peace. (James 3:14‑18)

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James 4:1‑2• ¹Whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [Are they] not hence, from your pleasures that combat in your members?
²Ye lust and have not; ye kill and are jealous, 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, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye; 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,{HR}Whether he rage or laugh, [he] hath no rest.
²²An angry man exciteth contention;{HR}And a furious man aboundeth in transgression. (Prov. 29:9,22)

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Acts 19:28‑29• ²⁸And when they heard they were filled with wrath and kept crying out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.
²⁹And the city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, (Acts 19:28‑29)

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Acts 21:30• ³⁰And the whole city was moved, and the people ran together, and they laid hold on Paul and dragged him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut. (Acts 21:30)

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Acts 22:22‑23• ²²And they gave him audience unto this word, and they lifted up their voices and said, Away with such [a fellow] from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live.
²³And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust into the air, (Acts 22:22‑23)

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1 Tim. 3:3• ³not given to wine, no striker, but gentle, not contentious, 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 questionings and word-disputes, out of which cometh envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions,
⁵wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that piety is gain. (1 Tim. 6:4‑5)

evil speaking.

Lev. 19:16• ¹⁶Thou shalt not go about a tale-bearer among thy people; nor shalt thou stand against the blood 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• ³[Who] hath not slandered with his tongue,{HR}Hath not done evil to his neighbour,{HR}And hath not taken up a reproach against his neighbour. (Psa. 15:3)

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Psa. 50:20• ²⁰Thou sittest, thou speakest against thy brother;{HR}Against thy mother's son thou utterest slander. (Psa. 50:20)

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Psa. 101:5• ⁵Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour,{HR}Him I will cut off;{HR}The lofty of eyes and proud of heart,{HR}Him will I not suffer. (Psa. 101:5)

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Psa. 140:11• ¹¹A man of tongue shall not be established in the earth (land);{HR}A man of violence, evil shall hunt him to ruin (destruction). (Psa. 140:11)

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Prov. 6:19• ¹⁹A false witness breathing out lies,{HR}And he that sendeth out discords among brethren. (Prov. 6:19)

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Prov. 10:18• ¹⁸He that covereth hatred hath lying lips;{HR}And he that uttereth slander [is] a fool. (Prov. 10:18)

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Prov. 18:8• ⁸The words of a tale-bearer [are] as dainty morsels,{HR}And they go down to the chambers of the belly. (Prov. 18:8)

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Prov. 25:23• ²³The north wind bringeth forth rain;{HR}And an angry countenance a secret tongue. (Prov. 25:23)

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Prov. 26:20• ²⁰Where no wood is, the fire goeth out,{HR}And where no whisperer, the strife 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, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (Rom. 1:29‑30)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹Women likewise [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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1 Tim. 5:13• ¹³And withal they learn also [to be] idle, going about the houses; and not only idle but also tattlers and busy-bodies, speaking things that are not fitting. (1 Tim. 5:13)

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2 Tim. 3:3• ³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good, (2 Tim. 3:3)

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Titus 2:3• ³that aged women likewise be in deportment reverent, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good; (Titus 2:3)

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Titus 3:2• ²to speak evil of no one, to be uncontentious, gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. (Titus 3:2)

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James 4:11• ¹¹Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against law and judgeth law; but if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law but a judge. (James 4:11)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Putting away 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 especially those that walk after flesh in lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not speaking railingly of dignities,
¹¹when angels, being greater in might and power, bring not against them before [the] Lord a railing charge. (2 Peter 2:10‑11)

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Jude 8‑10• ⁸Yet likewise, these dreamers also defile flesh, and set at nought lordship and rail at dignities.
⁹But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
¹⁰But these rail at whatever things they know not; but whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves. (Jude 8‑10)

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Rev. 12:10• ¹⁰And I heard a loud 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 is cast out that accused them before our God day and night. (Rev. 12:10)

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Gen. 4:8• ⁸And Cain said 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 speak peaceably to him.
²¹And Reuben heard, and delivered him out of their hands, 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 take vengeance, 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;{HR}But love covereth all transgressions. (Prov. 10:12)

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Prov. 26:24‑25• ²⁴He that hateth dissembleth with his lips,{HR}But he layeth up deceit within him
²⁵When his voice is gracious, believe him not,{HR}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 angry:{HR}For anger 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, ill-will; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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1 Cor. 5:8• ⁸Wherefore let us keep 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 mind, but in malice be infantine, but in mind be of full age. (1 Cor. 14:20)

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Col. 3:8• ⁸But now do ye also put off the whole: wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, 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 for what did he slay him? Because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.
¹⁵Every one that hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life eternal 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;