In Matthew 5:22, we read, “Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.” But the words without a cause are absent from most early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament—as they are from the Book of Mormon record concerning the Savior’s instructions on overcoming anger. When he translated 3 Nephi 12:22, Joseph Smith probably did not realize that the phrase without a cause did not originally belong in this passage, as textual criticism of the Bible was very limited in 1829 America. (See Echoes, 333–335.)