2 Timothy 2:24

A Worker Approved To God And Not Ashamed

²³ But avoid foolish and unprofitable questions, because you know that they produce contentions: ²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils, ²⁵ in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, if, possibly, God may give them repentance in order to the acknowledgment of the truth,

Bond of Peace

Servant of the Lord

1 Timothy 3:2-3

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

Titus 3:2

to revile no one, not to be contentious, but gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we were gentle among you. As a nurse nourishes her children,

Titus 1:7

For the bishop must be blame less, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means;

Matthew 12:19

He shall not contend, nor cry out; nor shall any one hear his voice in the streets.

John 6:52

The Jews, therefore, contended among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Acts 7:26

And on the next day he showed himself to them, as they were fighting, and endeavored to persuade them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers: why do you injure one another?

Acts 15:2

Therefore, after Paul and Barnabas had no little dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from among them, should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.

Acts 23:9

We find no evil in this man; but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I, the same Paul, who, when present among you, am timid, but when absent, am bold toward you, entreat you, by the mildness and gentleness of Christ;

2 Corinthians 10:4

(for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, for the overthrowing of strongholds,)

Galatians 5:22

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

Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love,

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing in strife and vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

Colossians 3:13

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you:

1 Timothy 6:11

But do you, man of God, shun these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, patience, meekness.

Titus 1:1

PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgement of the truth, which is according to godliness;

Titus 1:9

holding fast the sure word as it is taught, that he may be able, by sound teaching, both to exhort and to convince the opposers.

James 1:1

JAMES, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion, greeting.

James 1:19-20

So, then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

James 3:17

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

James 4:2

You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not.

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, be all of the same mind, be sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, kind-hearted, humble-minded;

Jude 1:3

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.