Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
KJV
Διὸ ἀποθέμενοι τὸ ψεῦδος λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων μέλη.
Greek NT
Propter quod deponentes mendacium, loquimini veritatem unusquisque cum proximo suo : quoniam sumus invicem membra.
Vulgate
Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
ASV
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διό
dio
conjunction · 52×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
μέλος
melos
noun · 34×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
πλησίον
plesion
adverb · 17×
ψεῦδος
pseudos
noun · 10×
ἀλήθεια
aletheia
noun · 109×
ἀλλήλων
allelon
reciprocal_pronoun · 100×
ἀποτίθημι
apotithemi
verb · 9×
ἕκαστος
ekastos
adjective · 84×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§1267Baptism makes us members of the Body of Christ: "Therefore . . . we are members one of another."71 Baptism incorporates us into the Church. From the baptismal fonts is born the one People of God of the New Covenant, which transcends all the natural or human limits of nations, cultures, races, and sexes: "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body."72
§2475Christ's disciples have "put on the new man, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."273 By "putting away falsehood," they are to "put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander."274
Men are possessed of free will, and endowed with the faculty of making a choice. It is not true, therefore, that some are by nature good, and others bad. 1. This expression [of our Lord], How often would I have gathered your children together, and you would not, Matthew 23:37 set forth the ancient law of human liberty, because God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, pos…
2. Whence then does He begin? And what kind of foundations of His new polity does He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was spoken unto them, it was written for the sake also of all men afterwards. And accordingly on this account, though He had His disciples in His mind in His public preaching, yet unto them He limits not His sayin…
Again he said to me, "Love truth, and let nothing but truth proceed from thy mouth, that the Spirit which God planted in this flesh may be found truthful by all men; and the Lord who dwelleth in thee shall thus be glorified."
Q. What is the aim of the ninth commandment? A. That I never give false testimony against anyone, twist no one's words, not gossip or slander, nor join in condemning anyone without a hearing or without a just cause. Rather, in court and everywhere else, I should avoid lying and deceit of every kind; these are devices the devil himself uses, and they would call down on me God's …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:17 — For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
- 1Cor 10:17 — For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
- 1Cor 12:12 — For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
- 1Cor 12:14 — For the body is not one member, but many.
- 1Tim 1:10 — For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
- 1Tim 4:2 — Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
- 2Cor 7:14 — For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
- Acts 5:3 — But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
- Col 3:9 — Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
- Col 3:9 — Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
- Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
- Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
- Eph 4:22 — That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
- Eph 5:9 — (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
- Exod 23:1 — Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Exod 23:7 — Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
- Gen 27:24 — And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
- Hos 4:2 — By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
- Isa 9:15 — The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
- Isa 59:3 — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- Isa 63:8 — For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
- Jer 9:3 — And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
- Jer 9:5 — And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
- Judg 16:11 — And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
- Lev 19:11 — Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
- Lev 19:11 — Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
- Matt 5:37 — But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
- Phil 4:8 — Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
- Prov 4:24 — Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
- Prov 6:17 — A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
- Prov 8:7 — For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- Prov 12:17 — He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
- Prov 12:19 — The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- Prov 12:22 — Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
- Prov 13:5 — A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
- Prov 21:6 — The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- Prov 24:28 — Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
- Ps 4:2 — O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- Ps 15:2 — He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.