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 that have their young.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

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

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

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

Without

Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Therefore have I also 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 charge thee in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Hypocrisy

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

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

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

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

General references

neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

For my brethren 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 that ruleth among fools.

Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.

But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.