Colossians 3:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Bowels

Luke 1:78

Luke 2:1

1 John 3:17

Mercies

Bible References

Bowels

through the bowels of mercy of our God, in which the dayspring from on high looked upon us,

It came to pass in those days, a decree went out from Augustus Caesar, to enroll all the world.

Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?

Mercies

Let love be free from hypocrisy. Abhorring the evil, cleaving to the good:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything; but faith working through divine love.

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in divine love;

fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing;

See that no one may return evil for evil to any one; but always pursue good toward one another, and toward all.

But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily persuaded, full of mercy and of good works, free from partiality and hypocrisy.

And finally, all being like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, merciful, humble:

And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge;

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.