Ephesians 4:25

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ ἀποθέμενοι τὸ ψεῦδος, λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ: ὅτι ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων μέλη.

Transliteration

Therefore apothemenoi the pseudos, laleite alētheian each with the plēsion of him: for we esmen of one another melē.

Grammar Details

• *Dio*: conjunction - therefore/for this reason
• *apothemenoi*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine plural - having put away
• *pseudos*: accusative neuter singular - falsehood/lie
• *laleite*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - speak
• *alētheian*: accusative feminine singular - truth
• *plēsion*: genitive masculine singular - neighbor
• *esmen*: present active indicative, 1st plural - we are
• *melē*: nominative neuter plural - members

Word Meanings

• *apothemenoi*: having put away/laid aside
• *pseudos*: falsehood/lie/deception
• *laleite*: speak/tell
• *alētheian*: truth/reality
• *plēsion*: neighbor/fellow person
• *melē*: members/parts/limbs

Referenced Verses

• Col 3:9 : 9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
• Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;
• Rom 12:5 : 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.
• Eph 4:15 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
• Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.
• Lev 19:11 : 11 Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.
• Prov 8:7 : 7 For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
• Prov 12:17 : 17 He that uttereth truth showeth forth righteousness; But a false witness, deceit.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;
• 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
• 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine; [
• Titus 1:12 : 12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
• Prov 12:19 : 19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a moment.
• 1 Kgs 13:18 : 18 And he said unto him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.
• Ps 52:3 : 3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {{Selah
• Ps 119:29 : 29 Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me thy law graciously.
• Prov 6:17 : 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
• Prov 21:6 : 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
• Isa 9:15 : 15 The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
• Isa 59:3-4 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. 4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
• Isa 63:8 : 8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.
• Jer 9:3-5 : 3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
• Hos 4:2 : 2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
• 1 Cor 10:17 : 17 seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
• 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now they are many members, but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary: 23 and those [parts] of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness; 24 whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked; 25 that there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.
• 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
• Zech 8:19 : 19 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth 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 thereof.
• Acts 5:3-4 : 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land? 4 While it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thy heart? thou has not lied unto men, but unto God.
• Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body.