Ephesians 4:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because 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, having put off the old man with his practices,
• Zech 8:16 : 16 These `are' the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,
• Rom 12:5 : 5 so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.
• Eph 4:15 : 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
• Prov 12:22 : 22 An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.
• Lev 19:11 : 11 `Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.
• Prov 8:7 : 7 For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips `is' wickedness.
• Prov 12:17 : 17 Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
• 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,
• 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,
• Titus 1:12 : 12 A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'
• Rev 21:8 : 8 and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part `is' in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
• Rev 22:15 : 15 and without `are' the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
• Prov 12:19 : 19 The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.
• 1 Kgs 13:18 : 18 And he saith to him, `I also `am' a prophet like thee, and a messenger spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, and he doth eat bread and drink water;' -- he hath lied to him.
• Ps 52:3 : 3 Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.
• Ps 119:29 : 29 The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.
• Prov 6:17 : 17 Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --
• Prov 21:6 : 6 The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
• Isa 9:15 : 15 Elder, and accepted of face, he `is' the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he `is' the tail.
• Isa 59:3-4 : 3 For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
• Isa 63:8 : 8 And He saith, Only My people they `are', Sons -- they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour.
• Jer 9:3-5 : 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
• Hos 4:2 : 2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
• 1 Cor 10:17 : 17 because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.
• 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ, 13 for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink, 14 for also the body is not one member, but many; 15 if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body; 16 and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body? 17 If the whole body `were' an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling? 18 and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed, 19 and if all were one member, where the body? 20 and now, indeed, `are' many members, and one body; 21 and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.' 22 But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary, 23 and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant, 24 and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another, 26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members; 27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
• 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,
• Zech 8:19 : 19 `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth `months', are to the house of Judah for joy and for rejoicing, and for pleasant appointed seasons, and the truth and the peace they have loved.
• John 8:44 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
• Acts 5:3-4 : 3 And Peter said, `Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place? 4 while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why `is' it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;'
• Eph 5:30 : 30 because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;