Ephesians 4:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one 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 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices
• Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.
• Rom 12:5 : 5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.
• Eph 4:15 : 15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
• Prov 12:22 : 22 The LORD abhors a person who lies, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.
• Lev 19:11 : 11 Dealing Honestly“‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.
• Prov 8:7 : 7 For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.
• Prov 12:17 : 17 The faithful witness tells what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before time began.
• 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.
• 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.
• Titus 1:12 : 12 A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said,“Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
• Prov 12:19 : 19 The one who tells the truth will endure forever, but the one who lies will last only for a moment.
• 1 Kgs 13:18 : 18 Then the old prophet said,“I too am a prophet like you. And an angel has told me in a message from the LORD,‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat food and drink water.’” But he had lied to him.
• Ps 52:3 : 3 You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth.(Selah)
• Ps 119:29 : 29 Remove me from the path of deceit! Graciously give me your law!
• Prov 6:17 : 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
• Prov 21:6 : 6 Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
• Isa 9:15 : 15 The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.
• Isa 59:3-4 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words. 4 No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
• Isa 63:8 : 8 He said,“Certainly they will be my people, children who are not disloyal.” He became their deliverer.
• Jer 9:3-5 : 3 The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me. 4 Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him. 5 One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
• Hos 4:2 : 2 There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.
• 1 Cor 10:17 : 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.
• 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not a single member, but many. 15 If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that. 16 And if the ear says,“Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that. 17 If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell? 18 But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided. 19 If they were all the same member, where would the body be? 20 So now there are many members, but one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand,“I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot,“I do not need you.” 22 On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential, 23 and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity, 24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member, 25 so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another. 26 If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it. 27 Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.
• 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.
• Zech 8:19 : 19 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.’
• John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Acts 5:3-4 : 3 But Peter said,“Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land? 4 Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God!”
• Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body.