Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Ephesians 4:28
Steal no more (mhketi kleptetw). Clearly here, cease stealing (present active imperative with mhketi).
The thing that is good (to agaqon). "The good thing" opposed to his stealing and "with his hands" (taiv xersin, instrumental case) that did the stealing. See II Thessalonians 3:10. Even unemployment is no excuse for stealing.
To give (metadidonai). Present active infinitive of metadidwmi, to share with one.
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