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

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority,

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

for the natural effect of light, is universal benevolence, justice, and truth:

we behav'd to you with a tender regard, even as a mother, who nurses her own children.

a christian must not be litigious, but easy to all men, qualify'd to instruct,

to speak evil of no man. to avoid contention, to be moderate and entirely inoffensive to all men.

Without

have not you made an arbitrary distinction, don't your judgments flow from a vicious principle?

I conjure you before God, before our Lord Jesus Christ, and his chosen angels, to observe these rules without prepossession and partiality.

Hypocrisy

just so ye put on an air of probity in the sight of men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

In the mean time thousands of people being gather'd about him, so as to trample upon one another, he first address'd himself thus to his disciples, beware of the corrupt doctrine of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Jesus seeing Nathanael coming, said of him, there's a true Israelite, in whom is no guile. how do you know me?

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

General references

take care therefore, that the light which is in thee do not become darkness.

but the populace, who are ignorant of the law, are such wretches.

do all you can to live peaceably, if it be possible, with all mankind.

but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.

endeavouring to preserve the spiritual union by your affectionate attachment to one another.

for he that is not dispassionate is a stranger to the practice of true virtue.