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

Titus 3:2

Without

James 2:4

1 Timothy 5:21

Hypocrisy

1 John 3:18

General references

Bible References

Gentle

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

Now I appeal to you in person, by the gentleness and fairness of Christ, I, Paul, who am so "condescending when face to face with you, but so courageous toward you when far away!"

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

for the product of light consists in practicing everything that is good and right and true;

Instead we were little children among you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel but must be gentle to everybody; he must be a skillful teacher, and not resentful under injuries.

to stop abusing anyone, to be peaceable, fair-minded, showing perfect gentleness to everybody.

Without

do you not make improper distinctions among yourselves and prove to be critics with evil motives?

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels, to carry out these instructions without prejudice and with perfect impartiality.

Hypocrisy

So you, too, on the outside seem to people to be upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Meanwhile as the people had gathered in tens of thousands, so that they were trampling upon one another, He began to say, first of all, to His disciples: "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right.

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander,

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

General references

So be on your guard that the very source of light in you is not darkness.

But this mob, which knows nothing about the law, is bound to be accursed!"

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with everybody.

But if you continue to bite and eat one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

continuing with eager earnestness to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the tie of peace.

for a man's anger does not produce the uprightness that God requires.