Ephesians 4:26-29     New English Translation

26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger. 27 Do not give the devil an opportunity. 28 The one who steals must steal no longer; instead he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need. 29 You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need] that it would give grace to those who hear.

 

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The territory that we furnish is considered sin

There is a positive and negative type of it

If we break it down, sin is still so deep within

But we get a better idea of how easily it besets my grid.

 

Positive sin is easily seen like looking at sinful scenes

Homosexuality, abortion, and unclean flattering words

Adultery and other means, dirty jokes and fornication

Stealing, lying and anger, and other lawbreaking hordes

 

Positive sin gives more and more territory to evil spirits

Until a person is fully occupied, transformed, and complete

Only Christ knows for sure the condition than to bear it

The one who takes at his will and sweeps them of their feet

 

Negative sin is indirect and makes one hypocritical

To know of a good and not to do it is a greater sin

To misuse the freedom received at redemption

And use God’s gifts only for self as it grows within

 

To give in when you should not, to compromise even slightly

To wander off the narrow path and looking down somehow

It makes the path more important and the travel more significant

Then the destiny of need to be as you serve a golden cow

 

Jan Wienen