Ephesians 4:26
“Be angry, but do not be willing to sin.” Do not let the sun set over your anger.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
In Context
27Provide no place for the devil.
Cross References
Exodus 11:8And all these, your servants, shall descend to me and shall reverence me, by saying: ‘Depart, you and all the people who are subject to you.’ After these things, we will depart.”
Numbers 20:10And having gathered the multitude before the rock, he said to them: “Listen, you who are rebellious and unbelieving. Would we be able to cast out water from this rock?”
Numbers 25:7And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, had seen it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and, seizing a dagger,
1 Samuel 20:34Therefore, Jonathan rose up from the table in a rage of anger. And he did not eat bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was saddened over David, because his father had confounded him.
Psalms 4:4And know this: the Lord has made wondrous his holy one. The Lord will heed me when I cry out to him.
Psalms 106:30And they were joyful that it was stilled, and he led them into the haven that they desired.
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 →