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 give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,

To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

Without

Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.

Hypocrisy

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

General references

But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.

So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.