Ephesians 4:28
Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
27neither give place to the devil.
Cross References
Exodus 20:17Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
Job 34:32Teach thou me that which I do not see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
Proverbs 14:23In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.
Proverbs 30:9lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.
Hosea 4:2There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.
Luke 3:8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:18-32
Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. ( a. d. 61.) 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not… Read the whole commentary →