The Apostle Paul
Ephesians 4:31WEB·traditional attribution

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Albert Barnes Presbyterian

Bitterness, rage, anger, clamor, slander, malice, cast them all away. Christians must be calm and serious; harsh contentions and hoarse brawls have no place among us. Every kind of evil is to be put away, and only what is good is to remain.

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Matthew Henry Presbyterian

Paul speaks with apostolic weight: you must not live as the heathen do, whose minds chase vanities and whose hearts are darkened and estranged from God's life. You were snatched as brands from the burning; do not return to that smoke.

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Commenting on Ephesians 4:17-32

John Calvin Reformed

Anger takes many forms: wrath, sudden outbursts, noisy disputes, reproaches. The sudden attack differs from lasting resentment, yet both poison the soul. Remove malice, that depravity opposed to humanity and justice, and the rest will follow.

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