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Selected Verse: Ephesians 4:25 - King James

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Eph 4:25 King James Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Wherefore--From the general character of "the new man," there will necessarily result the particular features which he now details.

putting away--Greek, "having put away" once for all.

lying--"falsehood": the abstract. "Speak ye truth each one with his neighbor," is quoted, slightly changed, from Zac 8:16. For "to," Paul quotes it "with," to mark our inner connection with one another, as "members one of another" [STIER]. Not merely members of one body. Union to one another in Christ, not merely the external command, instinctively leads Christians to fulfil mutual duties. One member could not injure or deceive another, without injuring himself, as all have a mutual and common interest.
 
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16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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 speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: