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 in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who indeed am lowly in presence among you, but am bold toward you when absent.

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

(for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children.

And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

to slander no man, to be noncontentious, meek, showing all mildness to all men.

Without

then are ye not partial among yourselves, and become judges from evil thoughts?

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

I solemnly testify before God, and Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen agents, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

Hypocrisy

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profaneness, and to utter error against LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

In this way also, ye indeed outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

During which time the myriads of the multitude having gathered together so as to trample each other, he began first to say to his disciples, Take heed to yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says about him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit.

Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

General references

neither shall thou favor a poor man in his case.

For my brothers and companions' sakes I will now say, Peace be within thee.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Watch therefore the light in thee not be darkness.

But this multitude that does not know the law are accursed.

If possible from you, keeping peace with all men,

But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.

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

For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.