James 3:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Gentle

Without

James 2:4

Malachi 2:9

1 Timothy 5:21

Hypocrisy

General references

Bible References

Gentle

Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,
In His arm He will gather the lambs
And carry them in His bosom;
He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

(for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

But we proved to be

gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.

The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged,

to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

Without

have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?

“So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.

Hypocrisy

For a fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart

inclines toward wickedness:

To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,
To

keep the hungry person unsatisfied

And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a

sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all

slander,

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

General references

nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

The words of the wise heard in quietness are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”

If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.