Ephesians Chapter 4 verse 25 Holy Bible
Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
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And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
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Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.
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Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
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Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
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Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
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Ephesians 4 : 25 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - Ephesians 5:2. - RAGS OF THE OLD MAN AND ROBES OF THE NEW. Verse 25. - Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak every man truth with his neighbor. Lying or falsehood is pre-eminently a heathen vice, as missionaries in India and other countries abundantly testify. It is an attribute of fallen humanity: "They go astray from the womb, speaking lies;" and one of the earliest vices that appear in children is deceit. Not only is it God's will and command that we speak the truth, but it is peculiarly incumbent on Christians as children of the light, as followers of him who is the Truth, as having renounced the devil, who is the father of lies. Another reason is added. For ye are members one of another. Falsehood is always designed to mislead; but to deceive our own members is emphatically wicked. Says Chrysostom (quoted by Eddie), "Let not the eye lie to the foot, nor the foot to the eye. If there be a deep pit, and its mouth, covered with reeds, shall present to the eye the appearance of solid ground, will not the eye use the foot to ascertain whether it is hollow underneath or whether it is firm and resists? Will the foot tell a lie, and not the truth as it is? And what, again, if the eye were to spy a serpent or a wild beast, will it lie to the foot?"
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) For we are members.--Accordingly the reason given for "putting away lying" is that "we are members one of another." Truth is the first condition of the mutual confidence which is the basis of all unity. Hence it is the first duty of that "membership one of another," which follows from our being "one body in Christ" (Romans 12:5; 1Corinthians 12:27). No doubt it is also the first duty to our own humanity, and to the God "who hateth a lie." But these views, though true in themselves, would not be relevant to St. Paul's great subject here.
