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

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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 4:25. Cf. Zechariah 8:16.

Ephesians 4:26. Cf. Psalms 4:4 (LXX), Deuteronomy 24:13; Deuteronomy 24:15.

Ephesians 4:29. corrupt: literally rotten, decaying. for edifying. may be: i.e. with a view to building up, as the matter may require.

Ephesians 4:30. Cf. Ephesians 1:13; Revelation 7:2 f.

Ephesians 5:2. Christ is here compared not with a sin offering but with a burnt offering ascending to heaven in savoury smoke (cf. Php_4:18).

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Ephesians 4:25-32

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27 Neither give place to the devil.

28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to giveg to him that needeth.

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good toh the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.