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for the anger of man doesn`t produce the righteousness of God.
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Anger Doesn't Produce Righteousness
Commentators unanimously agree that human anger is fundamentally incompatible with producing the righteous life God desires. Albert Barnes explains that anger's tendency is to make us break God's law, not keep it. The Expositor's Bible Commentary notes that an angry attitude is simply not the atmosphere in which righteousness can flourish, contrasting it with the 'harvest of righteousness' sown in peace (James 3:18).
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. It does not produce in life the righteousness that God requires. Its tendency i…
The wrath of man (οργη ανδρος). Here ανηρ (as opposed to γυνη woman), not ανθρωπος of verse 19 (inclusive of both man and woman). …
19th Century
Anglican
For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.—Sarcastically rings the context. Perhaps there is still a sharper point to the sa…
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Baptist
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousnes…
“For” indicates that this verse gives the reasoning that lies behind the last exhortation. One’s anger does not produce “the righteous life that Go…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God . This is so far from engaging persons to do that which is right …
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