29 [a]Let no [b]corrupt communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister [c]grace unto the hearers.

30 [d]And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath, crying, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:29 He bridleth the tongue also, teaching us so to temper our talk, that our hearer’s mind be not only not destroyed, but also instructed.
  2. Ephesians 4:29 Word for word, rotten.
  3. Ephesians 4:29 By grace he meaneth that, whereby men may profit to the going on forward godliness and love.
  4. Ephesians 4:30 A general precept against all excess of affections which dwell in the part of the mind, which they call, Angry, and he setteth against them the contrary means. And useth a most vehement preface, how we ought to take heed that we grieve not the holy Spirit of God through our immoderateness and intemperance, who dwelleth in us to this end, to moderate all our affections.

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