Ephesians 4:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. ”

• Ephesians 4:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wherefore putting away lying - It may seem strange that the apostle should seriously exhort Christians to put away “lying,” implying that they were in the habit of indulging in falsehood. But we...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (14) Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. (14) He commends separately certain special Christian virtues, and first of all he req...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:2 . Precepts of the New Life. Away then with lying, resentment, stealing, foul talk, bad temper, lust. Remember the common membership ( Ephesians 4:25 ). Give the d...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  putting . having put. Greek. apotithemi. As Ephesians 4:22 . lying . the lie. Greek. to pseudos. Compare John 8:44 . Rom 1:25. 2 Thessalonians 2:11 . speak, &c . From Zechariah 8:16...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. Wherefore, putting away lying. From this head of doctrine, that is, from the righteousness of the new man, all godly exhortations flow, like streams from a fountain; for if all the prece...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Wherefore putting away lying - All falsity, all prevarication, because this is opposite to t...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ephesians 4:25 .— After the general exhortation, in the foregoing verses, to renounce the old course of life which they led when they were heathens, and to become perfectly new men, conformed to...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Wherefore. From the general character of "the new man," there necessarily result the...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Unity of the New Life. Rules for the New Life The Apostle passes, as usual, from doctrinal statements to practical exhortations; but doctrine is here and there introduced to support exhortation....

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 21 DISCARDED VICES Ephesians 4:25-32 ; Ephesians 5:1-6 The transformation described in the last paragraph ( Ephesians 4:17-24 ) has now to be carried into detail. The vices of the old...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Putting on the “New Man” Ephesians 4:20-32 The Lord Jesus is our text-book and our teacher, the schoolhouse in which we are taught, and the object lesson in which all truth is enshrined. But al...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (17) В¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, (18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from th...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore putting away lying ,.... Which is one of the deeds of the old man, and a branch of the former conversation agreeable to him: a lie is a voluntary disagreement of the mind and speech, with...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Ver. 25. Wherefore putting away lying ] A base tinkerly sin, as Plutarch calls it, shame...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wherefore Since you have been thus taught what is your duty and interest, let it appear in your tempers, words, and works, that there is such a change wrought in them; and that, having received a n...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  RESPONSE IN PRACTICAL UNITY (vs.1-6) In this letter to the Ephesian saints, Paul first presented the basic truth so essential for individual saints (Ch.1:1- 2:10) and for the Church, the body of...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. A. D.  61....

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Wherefore putting away lying; all fraudulency and dissimulation, and whatever is contrary to truth. Speak every man truth; not only speak as things are, but act sincerely and candidly. For we ar...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Wherefore, putting away falsehood, each one of you speak truth with his neighbour, for we are members of one another. The first test of whether we know the truth and have put on the new man is that...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Ephesians 4:25 . Putting away lying. —Findlay holds to it that “ the lie, the falsehood , is objective and concrete; not lying , or falsehood , as a subjective a...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Ephesians 4:1-2 . I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ephesians 4:1 . I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you a pathetic argument, for if I hear of discords among you it will add affliction to my bonds; that ye walk worthy of the vocation...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION PRACTICAL PORTION OF THE EPISTLE . Ephesians 4:1-49 CHURCH PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH AND PROGRESS ; THE CHURCH A BODY . Ephesians 4:1 I therefore . I...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor; for we are members one of another.

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:17 ; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ; 1 Kings 13:18 ; 1 Timothy 1:10 ; 1 Timothy 4:2 ; 2 Corinthians 7:14 ; Acts 5:3 ; Acts 5:4 ; Colossians 3:9 ; Ephesians 4:15 ; Ephesians 5:30...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Higher Christian Life Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We...

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• Ephesians 4:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Wherefore — Seeing ye are thus created anew, walk accordingly, in every particular. For we are members one of another — To which intimate union all deceit is quite repugnant.

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