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“Put off … the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;” Ephesians 4:22
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“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the New Man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:23,24
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“Putting away lying,” Ephesians 4:25
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“speak every man truth with his neighbor:” Ephesians 4:25
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“GIVE NO PLACE TO THE DEVIL… STEAL NO MORE!” EPHESIANS 4:27,28
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“LET HIM LABOUR, WORKING WITH HIS HANDS, THE THING WHICH IS GOOD, THAT HE MAY HAVE TO GIVE TO HIM THAT NEEDETH.” EPHESIANS 4:28
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“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth.” Ephesians 4:29
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“Speak that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers” Ephesians 4:29
Edifying= Building up in christian knowledge; instructing, improving the mind.
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“Bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:” Ephesians 4:31
BITTERNESS= Grudge, hatred, anger, a state of extreme impiety or enmity to God. Acts 8
ANGER= A violent passion of the mind excited by a real or supposed injury; usually accompanied with a propensity to take vengeance, or to obtain satisfaction from the offending party.
CLAMOR= A great outcry; noise; exclamation; talk loud; to stun with noise.
EVIL SPEAKING= bad, unjust, injurious, immoral, wicked, corrupt, perverse, wrong.
MALICE= Extreme enmity of heart, or malevolence; a disposition to injure others without cause, from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge; unprovoked malignity or spite. To regard with extreme ill will.
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“Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” Ephesians 4:32
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“Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, Let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.” Ephesians 5:3
Fornication= The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
Covetousness= A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; usually in a bad sense, and applied to an inordinate desire of wealth or avarice. Strong desire; eagerness.
Filthiness=The state of being filthy. Foulness; dirtiness; filth; nastiness. Corruption; pollution; defilement by sin; impurity.
FOOLISH= Void of understanding or sound judgment; weak in intellect; applied to general character. Unwise; imprudent; acting without judgment or discretion in particular things. Proceeding from folly, or marked with folly; silly; vain; trifling.
But foolish questions avoid. 2 Tim 2. Ridiculous; despicable.
In scripture, wicked; sinful; acting without regard to the divine law and glory, or to one’s own eternal happiness. O foolish Galatians – Gal 3.
Proceeding from depravity; sinful; as foolish lusts. 1 Tim 6.
JESTING= Joking; talking for diversion or merriment. A joking; concise wit; wit that consists in a trope or verbal figure, in a metaphorical sense of words, or in a double sense of the same word, or in similitude of sound in different words.
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“But Rather GIVING OF THANKS!” Ephesians 5:4
“Grieve NOT the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
Ephesians 4:30