Red Letters

Matthew 5:21-22
“…‘whoever commits shall be liable to the court’. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court and whoever shall say to his brother … ‘you fool’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.”

Not only does Christ uphold the Law in its entirety, he extends the predominantly outward law to inner and root sins. Anger, inner and verbal, are put on the same standing as murder. This also extends the inadequacy of man and cognizance of his need for redemption.

The passage is also another precept of the kingdom of heaven, and another sin to be avoided.