Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
(Eph 4:25.) put off--Greek, "wholly put off"; utterly renounced [TITTMANN]. (Eph 4:22). the old man--the unregenerate nature which ye had before conversion. his deeds--habits of acting.
Lie not one to another.... Which is another vice of the tongue, and to which mankind are very prone, and ought not to be done to any, and particularly to one another; since the saints are members one of another, and of the same body, which makes the sin the more unnatural; of this vice; see Gill on Eph 4:25, and is another sin that...
Verse 9. Lie not one to another. . Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds. Your former corrupt and evil nature. . The reason for putting away lying, stated in , is, that we "are members one of another"- or are brethren. The reason assigned here is, that we have put off the old man with his deeds.