Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
Cross References
Psalm 37:8Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret--it can only bring harm.
Romans 3:14"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Ephesians 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
Colossians 3:8But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
Colossians 3:19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
1 Peter 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
Treasury of Scripture
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
bitterness.
Psalm 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Colossians 3:8,19
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth…
wrath.
Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Proverbs 14:17
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
clamour.
2 Samuel 19:43
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20:1,2
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel…
Proverbs 29:9,22
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest…
evil speaking.
Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
2 Samuel 19:27
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
Psalm 15:3
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
with.
Genesis 4:8
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Genesis 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Genesis 37:4,21
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him…
