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Ephesians 4:25

In 9 translations

BSB
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
KJV
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
WEB
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
ASV
Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
LSV
For this reason, putting away the lying, each speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another;
YLT
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
DBY
Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.
DRC
Wherefore putting away lying, speak; ye the truth every man with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.
GNV
Wherefore cast off lying, and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Διὸ ἀποθέμενοι τὸ ψεῦδος λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων μέλη.
RP2018
Διὸ ἀποθέμενοι τὸ ψεῦδος λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων μέλη.
TR-Boyd
Διὸ ἀποθέμενοι τὸ ψεῦδος λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων μέλη.ἀλλήλων ¦ ἀλλήλοιν ST
SCR1894
διο αποθεμενοι το ψευδος λαλειτε αληθειαν εκαστος μετα του πλησιον αυτου οτι εσμεν αλληλων μελη

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
  • Zechariah 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
  • Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
  • Romans 12:5so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
  • Ephesians 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
  • Proverbs 12:17He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.
  • Proverbs 8:7For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
  • Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
  • Proverbs 12:19Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
  • Jeremiah 9:3–5“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not…
  • Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
  • Leviticus 19:11You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
  • 1 Timothy 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
  • 2 Corinthians 7:14Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.
  • Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • 1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

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