Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Ephesians 4:25, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Colossians 3:9
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
- Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
- Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
- Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
- Ephesians 4:15
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
- Proverbs 12:17
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
- Proverbs 8:7
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their p…
- Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and th…
- 1 Timothy 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
- Leviticus 19:11
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
More to meet God in Ephesians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.