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

He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that are with young.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth;)

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient,

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

Without

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

Hypocrisy

For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

In the mean time, when there was gathered an innumerable multitude of people, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

General references

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

But this people who know not the law are cursed.

If it is possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one by another.

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.