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 suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

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;

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

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

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

and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils,

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

Without

are you not partial in yourselves? and do you not judge from false principles?

I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, and that you do nothing by partiality.

Hypocrisy

So also you outwardly appear to men to be just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

In the mean time, when myriads of the people had come together, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

And Nathaniel said to him: Can any thing good come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him: Come and see.

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

Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

Therefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

General references

Take heed, therefore, lest the light that is in you be darkness.

But this multitude that know not the law are cursed.

If possible, as far as may be in your power, be at peace with all men.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.

earnestly endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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