down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands.… Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear” (Eph. 4:26–29). The first thing we note is that the passage consists of a list or cluster of individual moral commands. Being commands, these statements are more than statements of advice or potential