Ephesians 4:31
31 Let [airo] all [pas] bitterness, [pikria] and [kai] wrath, [thumos] and [kai] anger, [orge] and [kai] clamour, [krauge] and [kai] evil speaking, [blasphemia]
be put away [airo] from [apo] you, [humon] with [sun] all [pas] malice: [kakia] KJV-Interlinear
31 Let
all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you,
along with all malice. NASB
Bitterness is something
that is a disappointment, sharp, pungent, repulsive, disagreeable.
Wrath, refers to the
heavy breathing in a reaction, an overt reaction, to something or someone.
Anger, is more of a
mental attitude, an indignation, a desire for vengeance, revenge, or getting
even.
Clamor, is the outcry of
grief in suffering or in loss. Vocal, woe
is me, types of reaction.
Evil speaking, covers all
manner of verbal sins, from gossip, to maligning, to opinions, to mockery and
can be anti-God or anti-ideas, or anti-people.
All malice, covers just
about every other kind of sin or carnal attitude that a person can have or
commit. This would also cover human good and/or self-righteous attitudes as
substitutes for the spiritual life.
In other words, all
mental, verbal and overt activities that constitute the pattern of life that
you have subscribed to day in and day out, that are consistent with the carnal
life and separate and apart from the spiritual life.
These continual
activities of mind, mouth and body, all serve to suppress the Holy Spirit in
your life, and thus they suppress the spiritual life. So, when you do not comply with Gods
spiritual process, then you are the one who causes your life to be
dysfunctional.
And this in effect causes
the concept of grief, or grieving, or better stated, disappointment in God
concerning you. And of course we know
that God cannot be disappointed, but this conveys the idea regarding your
failure in a life where God has given you numerous phenomenal opportunities and
you simply ignored them.
So, in order to have the
perfect and complete and phenomenal life that God intends for you, then you
need to change. You need to put off the old habits and put on the new and
better habits, namely regular confession, daily study, open mindedness, a desire
to learn, an appreciation of Gods wisdom over your own and continue that
pattern of life and more, every day for the rest of your life.
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