English Standard Version ESV
The Message Bible MSG
19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
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Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear.
20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
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God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger.
21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
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Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.