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

Like a shepherd, he tends his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them close to his heart, and gently leads the mother sheep."

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

Now I myself, Paul, plead with you with the gentleness and kindness of the Messiah I who am humble when I am face to face with you but forceful toward you when I am away!

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

for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

even though as apostles of the Messiah we might have made such demands. Instead, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother tenderly caring for her own children.

A servant of the Lord must not argue. Instead, he must be kind to everyone, teachable, willing to suffer wrong,

They are not to insult anyone or be argumentative. Instead, they are to be gentle and perfectly courteous to everyone.

Without

then you will have made false distinctions among yourselves and will have judged from evil motives, will you not?

"So I also made you despised, humiliating you before all of the people, because you aren't following my ways and are showing partiality when you teach."

With God as my witness, as well as the Messiah Jesus and the chosen angels, I solemnly call on you to carry out these instructions without prejudice, doing nothing on the basis of partiality.

Hypocrisy

For fools utter contempt, and their minds plot wrong things: practicing ungodliness, spreading lies about the LORD, leaving the pangs of hungry people unsatisfied, and depriving thirsty people of drink.

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Meanwhile, the people had gathered by the thousands and were trampling on one another. Jesus began to speak first to his disciples. "Watch out for the yeast that is, the hypocrisy of the Pharisees!

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

Your love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.

General references

You are not to show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.

For the sake of my relatives and friends I will now say, "May there be peace within you."

The softly spoken words of the wise are to be heard rather than the shouts of a ruler of fools.

Therefore, be careful that the light in you isn't darkness.

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.

Do your best to maintain the unity of the Spirit by means of the bond of peace.

For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.