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

Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,

But I Paul exhort you through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who before your face am indeed humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you:

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

but we were gentle in the midst of you, as if a nurse may cherish her children;

But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil,

to speak evil of no one, that they should be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

Without

are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings?

I testify before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you must guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Hypocrisy

So you also appear unto the people indeed righteous, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

In the meantime, myriads of the multitude having gathered together, So that they trode on one another, He began to speak to His disciples first; Take heed unto yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and says concerning him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

Let love be free from hypocrisy. Abhorring the evil, cleaving to the good:

Having purified your souls through obedience of the truth unto unhypocritical, brotherly love, fervently from the heart love one another with divine love:

Therefore having laid aside all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all calumniations;

Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

General references

See then that the light which is in thee is not darkness.

But this crowd knowing not the law are accursed.

If possible, so far as it is within your power, living in peace with all men;

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

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

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