"Be ye angry"

Captain Sensible writes: Did you know that we are actually told in Ephesians 4:26-27 to be angry?

"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil." (KJV)

Interesting how the other translations word this. The Message says this:

"Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry — but don't use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don't stay angry. Don't go to bed angry. Don't give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life."

Yet in other translations, the goodness of anger is very much watered down:

"'In your anger do not sin': Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold." (NIV)

In fact, the New Living Translation, sees anger as a negative only:

"And 'don’t sin by letting anger control you.' Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 for anger gives a foothold to the devil."

Just shows the importance of reading more than one Bible translation, and although hard to understand at times, the King James Version is, I believe, generally regarded as being the most reliable.