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Ephesians 4:27 (WEB)
and don’t give place to the devil.

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Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 3
“Therefore saith the Preacher, If the spirit of him that hath power rise up against thee, quit not thy place.” — editor's note: Eccles. x. 4. Compare Eph. iv. 27: “Neither give place to the devil.”
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Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione Chapter 1
“But when he urges us not to give place to evil, he does not offer the suggestion that we should take to our heels, he only teaches that passion should be kept under restraint; and if he says that the time…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Tertullian, On Prayer Chapter 23
“We, however (just as we have received), only on the day of the Lord’s Resurrection ought to guard not only against kneeling, but every posture and office of solicitude; deferring even our businesses lest we give any place to the devil.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: but be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 25–32.
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Origen, De Principiis III.3Book III
“And when he says, “Neither give place to the devil,” he shows by that injunction that it is through certain acts, or a kind of mental slothfulness, that room is made for the devil, so that, if he once enter our…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 61
“…should be given to the devil who ensnares us, and desires to rage over us, to hurt them, since the apostle also says, “Do not give place to the devil.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 43
“It is true he does harass thee; but it was thou didst “give place” to him.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 142
“Therefore the Apostle, because it is in our power to shut the door, the door of our hearts, not of our walls, for in it is our “closet,”—because it is in our power to shut this door, saith, “neither give place to the devil.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 17
“Hear the Apostle, “Give not place to the devil.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 25
“For as we find it said in a certain place in a figure, “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil:” and this is understood not of this visible sun which holds as it were the zenith of glory among the rest of the visible creation, and which can be seen equally…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 26, 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 7
“Not in vain, therefore, says the apostle, “Neither give place to the devil.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 27.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 335
“If you are still offended, a thing alien from any reasonable soul and from your own, why, while you are preaching to others, that they must not keep their anger till sundown, have you kept yours during many suns?” — editor's note: cf. Eph. iv. 27, and the passage quoted by Alford from Plut., De Am. Frat. 488 B., to the effect that the Pythagoreans, whenever anger had caused unkindly…
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor III.12Book III
“…ye masters, treat your servants well, forbearing threatening: knowing that both their and your Lord is in heaven; and there is no respect of persons with Him.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 25–29, v. 1, 2, 22, 25, vi. 1, 4–9.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18Book I
“Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labour, working that which is good” (and to work is to labour in seeking the truth; for it is accompanied with rational well-doing), “that ye may have to give to him that has need,” both of worldly wealth and of divine wisdom.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 24, 25, 27–29.
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