So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you. The application of the anger prohibition to worship: unreconciled relationships cannot be suspended while performing religious duties. The if you are offering your gift at the altar puts the worshipper in the most sacred moment of the religious calendar — offering at the Temple — and interrupts it with the memory of an unresolved conflict. The prioritization of reconciliation over religious duty communicates the deeper logic of the kingdom: God is not honored by the worship of those who harbor anger or have wronged others without making it right. 1 Peter 3:7 warns that fractured marriage relationships will hinder prayer — the connection between human relationship and divine encounter runs through the whole New Testament.

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