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Listening and Doing

19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. 20 Human anger[a] does not produce the righteousness[b] God desires.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:20a Greek A man’s anger.
  2. 1:20b Or the justice.

Listening and Doing

19 My dear brothers and sisters,(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak(B) and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger(C) does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

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11 Fools vent their anger,
    but the wise quietly hold it back.

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11 Fools give full vent to their rage,(A)
    but the wise bring calm in the end.(B)

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