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 with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck.

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, when present am mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

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

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.

Without

have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become judges having evil thoughts?

And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in administering the law.

I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing by favour.

Hypocrisy

for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

In those times, the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

General references

Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

For my brethren and companions' sakes I will say, Peace be within thee!

The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

But this crowd, which does not know the law, are accursed.

if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.