Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. (Ephesians 4:25 ESV)
I thought Peter O'Brien's comments on the above verse rather poignant.
The means, by which this body is built, according to [Ephesians] 4:15, is speaking the truth of the gospel in love. Here at 4:25, the apostle’s point is that, in the body which is a model of harmonious relationships, there is no place for anything other than the truth. We are ‘no longer alienated, independent beings but people who now belong together in unity with others whom we must not rob of the truth according to which they decide and act. (O’Brien,The Letter to the Ephesians, p. 338)
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