Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Ephesians 4:25

“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”

Ephesians 4:25 (KJV)

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 passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Ephesians 4. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27 Neither give place to the devil.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Colossians 3:9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
  • Zechariah 8:16These 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 12:22Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
  • Romans 12:5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
  • Ephesians 4:15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
  • Proverbs 12:17He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
  • Proverbs 8:7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
  • Proverbs 12:19The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
  • Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire …
  • Jeremiah 9:3And 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 they know not me, saith the LORD.
  • 1 Timothy 4:2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • Leviticus 19:11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
  • Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
  • 2 Corinthians 7:14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

More to meet God in Ephesians

Ephesians 2:8Ephesians 2:10Ephesians 6:10Ephesians 3:20Ephesians 4:32Ephesians 2:4Ephesians 6:11Ephesians 1:7Ephesians 4:31Ephesians 2:2Ephesians 5:3Ephesians 1:4Ephesians 1:17Ephesians 6:18

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.