“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;”
James addresses this to men and women in tension — a community scattered by persecution, carrying stress and conflict. His prescription is structural, not emotional: listen first, speak second, be slow to anger.
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