Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

I. bitterness – lit. “bitter gall”
1 a : being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, or disagreeable. b : distasteful or distressing to the mind.

2 a: marked by intensity or severity: a : accompanied by sever pain or suffering
b : being relentlessly determined c : exhibiting intense animosity

II. wrath – lit. “passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again” – the word is similar to the word used for being intoxicated with wine.

1 : strong vengeful anger or indignation

III. anger – lit. “1) anger, the natural disposition, temper, character 2) movement or agitation of the soul, impulse, desire, any violent emotion, but esp. anger”
1. a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism
2. an intense emotional state induced by displeasure

IV. clamor – lit. “a crying, outcry”
1 a : noisy shouting b : a loud continuous noise

V. slander – lit. “detraction, speech injurious to another's good name”
The greek word is also translated as “blasphemy”
1 : the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation
2 : a false and defamatory oral statement about a person

VI. malice – lit. “malignity, ill-will, desire to injure, evil, trouble”
1 : desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another

VII. all - lit. "each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything"
1 : the whole amount, quantity, or extent of
2 : every member or individual component of
3 : the whole number or sum of

VIII. be put away - lit. "to lift up, to bear away what has been raised, carry off"

1 : to move from its place
2 : to take off or away what is attached to anything
3 : to remove
4 : to carry off, carry away

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