Question:
Please explain Ephesians 4:26. In what way can we be angry and not sin?
Answer:
The text under question reads: “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:” (Ephesians 4:26).
It has been well said that a person incapable of anger is a fool. But God does not want us to cherish anger, for ‘anger resteth in the bosom of fools,’ and we should not let the sun go down on our wrath. First of all, we should not be angry at people or cherish anger towards them. But when high-handed wickedness triumphs, when the poor are oppressed, the weak trampled upon, the orphan and the widow deprived of their rights, souls deluded by blinding sophistry, what righteous soul, who sees these things, can feel otherwise than indignant, angry, and yet without sin? But if this anger leads us to cherish ill feelings against people, it is not without sin.
