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Source language
Original Greek   
ὀργὴ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς δικαιοσύνην θεοῦ ⸂οὐκ ἐργάζεται⸃.
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
orge gar andros dikaiosunen theou [?]ouk ergazetai[?].

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For the anger of man works not the righteousness of God.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Authorized (King James) Version   
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
New King James Version   
for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
21st Century King James Version   
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
For the rage of man does not perform the righteousness of God.
Darby Bible Translation   
for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
God's Word   
An angry person doesn't do what God approves of.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
for man's anger does not accomplish God's righteousness.
International Standard Version   
For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
NET Bible   
For human anger does not accomplish God's righteousness.
New American Standard Bible   
for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
New International Version   
because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
New Living Translation   
Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.
Webster's Bible Translation   
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Weymouth New Testament   
For a man's anger does not lead to action which God regards as righteous.
The World English Bible   
for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.
EasyEnglish Bible   
God wants us to do what is right. But when someone is angry, they do not do those right things.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;
New Life Version   
A man’s anger does not allow him to be right with God.
Revised Geneva Translation   
For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
The Voice Bible   
Human anger is a futile exercise that will never produce God’s kind of justice in this world.
Living Bible   
for anger doesn’t make us good, as God demands that we must be.
New Catholic Bible   
For human anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.
Legacy Standard Bible   
for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
Christian Standard Bible   
for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For man’s anger does not promote the righteousness God [wishes and requires].
New Century Version   
because anger will not help you live the right kind of life God wants.
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.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Certainly, a man’s anger does not bring about what is right before God.
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
For the anger of man does not bring about the righteousness that God requires.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness.
New Matthew Bible   
For the wrath of man does not work that which is righteous before God.
Good News Translation®   
Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose.
Wycliffe Bible   
for the wrath of man worketh not the rightwiseness of God.
New Testament for Everyone   
Human anger, you see, doesn’t produce God’s justice!
Contemporary English Version   
If you are angry, you cannot do any of the good things God wants done.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
In view of what he has made us then, dear brothers, let every man be quick to listen but slow to use his tongue, and slow to lose his temper. For man’s temper is never the means of achieving God’s true goodness.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
for human anger does not produce God’s righteousness.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness.
Common English Bible © 2011   
This is because an angry person doesn’t produce God’s righteousness.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us].
English Standard Version Anglicised   
for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
New American Standard Bible   
for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.
The Expanded Bible   
·because anger will not help you live the right kind of life God wants [L because human anger does not produce God’s righteousness].
Tree of Life Version   
for human anger doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
Revised Standard Version   
for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
New International Reader's Version   
Human anger doesn’t produce the holy life God wants.
BRG Bible   
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Complete Jewish Bible   
for a person’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness!
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
When a man is angry, he does not do what God says is right.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
For the ka’as of Bnei Adam does not accomplish the Tzikat Hashem.
Names of God Bible   
An angry person doesn’t do what God approves of.
Modern English Version   
for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Anger does not help you live the way God wants.
International Children’s Bible   
Anger will not help you live a good life as God wants.
Lexham English Bible   
for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
New International Version - UK   
because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
For the anger of a man does not produce the righteousness of God.