James 1:20 - Compare All Versions
James 1:20 NIV (New International Version)
because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 1:20 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:20 NLT (New Living Translation)
Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.
James 1:20 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
James 1:20 KJV (King James Version)
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 1:20 NKJV (New King James Version)
for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:19-21 MSG (The Message)
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. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. 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.
James 1:20 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.
James 1:20 AMP (Amplified Bible)
for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us].
James 1:20 NET (New English Translation)
For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.