Ephesians 4:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Ephesians 4:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let all bitterness - see the notes on Ephesians 4:2 . And wrath - The word here does not differ essentially from anger. Anger - see the note on Ephesians 4:26 . All cherished, unreasona...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

bitterness . Greek. pikria. See Romans 3:14 and Figure of speech Polysyndeton. App-6. wrath . Luke 4:28 . anger . Greek. orge . clamour . uproar. See Acts 23:9 . evil speaking . rai...
Ephesians 4:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

31. Let all bitterness. He again condemns anger; but, on the present occasion, views in connection with it those offenses by which it is usually accompanied, such as noisy disputes and repro...
Ephesians 4:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Let all bitterness - Πασα πικρια. It is astonishing that any who profess the Christian...
Ephesians 4:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let all bitterness, &c. be put away — "Do not passionately resent every trifle, nor bitterly inveigh, with all the licentiousness and keenness of satire, against those who have greatly injured...
Ephesians 4:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Bitterness - both of spirit and of speech: opposed to "kind." Wrath , х t...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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....
Ephesians 4:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Let all bitterness. — There is a similar enumeration in the parallel passage, Colossians 3:8 ; and in all such catalogues in St. Paul’s Epistles, while it is vain to seek for formal and elaborate...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let all bitterness ,.... These words are a dehortation from several vices good men are liable to, by which the Spirit of God is grieved: "bitterness" sometimes designs the corruption of nature, whic...
Ephesians 4:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Ver. 31. Let all bitterness, &c. ] If the godly man suddenly fall into hitter...
Ephesians 4:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let all bitterness Of disposition or expression, or, as some render the word, all peevishness; and wrath Or indignation, as θυμος seems here to signify; that is, anger mingled with contempt or di...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. A. D. 61....
Ephesians 4:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger; these all seem to relate to the inward affection, as the two following to the effects of it in the words. Bitterness may imply a secret lurking displeasu...
Ephesians 4:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger and clamour, and railing, be put away from you with all malice, and you be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Chri...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ephesians 4:31-32 Love the Foe and Conqueror of Selfishness. Christianity denies the assumption, and challenges it all along the line, that pursuit of the higher life need be, in any sense or deg...
Ephesians 4:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ephesians 4:1 . I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you- Paul puts force into the argument by his manner of speaking; you can hear in his words the rattle of his chains. Here is a man...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of sins against Christian fellowship:
Ephesians 4:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 14:20 ; 1 Corinthians 5:8 ; 1 John 3:12 ; 1 John 3:15 ; 1 Peter 2:1 ; 1 Timothy 3:11 ; 1 Timothy 3:3 ; 1 Timothy 5:13 ; 1 Timothy 6:4 ; 1 Timothy 6:5 ; 2 Corinthians 12:20 ;...
Ephesians 4:31 - 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...
Ephesians 4:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Let all bitterness — The height of settled anger, opposite to kindness, Ephesians 4:32 . And wrath — Lasting displeasure toward the ignorant, and them that are out of the way, opposite to tenderhe...

Ephesians 4:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ephesians 4:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ephesians 4:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ephesians 4:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ephesians 4:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ephesians 4:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ephesians 4:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 4:31 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Ephesians 4:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes