Ephesians 4:26-27

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 4:1-32

The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance of the unity of the Spirit. The fact of that unity is then declared. 'There is one body, and one Spirit"; the function of the instrument so described is revealed in the words, "one hope of your calling." He then showed how the unity is created: "one Lord," the Object of faith; "one faith,"... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ephesians 4:1-32

The Higher Christian Life Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accustomed to think of prisoners as men who are versed in crime. Paul, however, was a prisoner of the Lord. He was in prison, not because of his guilt, but because of his righteousness, and, withal his faithfulness to Christ. From the prison jail, Bunyan wrote as one sent of God. Behind the prison... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 4:26

USES OF ANGER‘Doest thou well to be angry?’ ‘Be ye angry, and sin not.’ Jonah 4:4 (with Ephesians 4:26). The former text implies that there is an anger which is sinful; and the latter text implies that there is an anger which is not sinful. The difference lies not so much in the character, or even in the degree of the emotion; but rather in the motive which rouses it, and the object towards which it is directed. I. There is a feeling to which we give the name of moral indignation; by way of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:26-27

‘Be angry, and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your angry mood. Neither give place to the Devil.’ The first phrase is taken from the LXX of Psalms 4:5. It recognises that anger in itself is not necessarily wrong. Indeed it tells us that we need to be angry if the cause is good. But it is a command that when we are angry we ensure it is short lasting and does not make us do wrong. The man who is too angry is least likely to make the right decisions. At times anger against sin and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:25-32

Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:2 . Precepts of the New Life.— Away then with lying, resentment, stealing, foul talk, bad temper, lust. Remember the common membership ( Ephesians 4:25). Give the devil no scope ( Ephesians 4:27). Do not grieve the Spirit ( Ephesians 4:30). Be kind, tender-hearted, forgiving— remembering the Divine forgiveness ( Ephesians 4:32). Be imitators of your heavenly Father and walk in love, remembering the love of Christ and His oblation of Himself for us. Ephesians... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:26

Be ye angry and sin not: by way of concession, rather than by way of command: q.d. If the case be such that ye must be angry, yet see it be without sin. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath; if your anger is excessive, (for so this word signifies, being different from the former), yet let it not be lasting; be reconciled ere the sun go down. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:27

Do not give advantage to the devil to possess your hearts, and put you upon more and greater evils: see Luke 22:3; John 13:27; Acts 5:3. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:25-32

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 4:25. Putting away lying.—Findlay holds to it that “the lie, the falsehood, is objective and concrete; not lying, or falsehood, as a subjective act, habit, or quality.” Members one of another.—Let there be “no schism in the body.”Ephesians 4:26. Let not the sun go down on your wrath.—The word for “wrath” is not the usual one. It almost seems as if the compound form had reference to the matter “alongside which” wrath was evoked. If “curfew” could ring out... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:26

Ephesians 4:26 Anger, Noble and Ignoble. In this injunction, delivered by St. Paul to a body of Christians, the privilege and duty of anger, as well as the danger attending its display, are fully recognised. They might be angry; they must be angry. Circumstances would continually arise to call out this emotion. They were not to crush it, only to watch it, lest it changed from a feeling worthy of God into one worthy only of the devil. I. What then is the emotion which is here by implication... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:27

Ephesians 4:27 "Who is the most diligent bishop in all England?" asks old Hugh Latimer in one of his quaint sermons. "I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all others; he is never out of his diocese; he is ever applying to his business; his office is to murder religion, to set up idolatry." I. We may be sure of this: that the devil never means good, but always evil. Sometimes he approaches Christian people in the garb of an angel of light, and deceives them by... read more

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