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 shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those with young.

Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;

And I myself, Paul, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ; I, who indeed to look upon am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

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

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

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse warmly cherishes her children.

But the servant of the Lord must not strive, but to be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient,

to speak evil of no one, not being quarrelsome, but forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.

Without

Did you not make a difference among yourselves and became judges with evil thoughts?

Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.

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

Hypocrisy

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will take away the drink of the thirsty.

Even so you also appear righteous to men outwardly, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

In the meantime, when there had gathered together an innumerable crowd of people, so as to trample on one 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 said of him, Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile!

Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;

Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

General references

And you should not favor a poor man in his cause.

For my brothers and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

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

Therefore take heed that the light in you is not darkness.

But this crowd, not knowing the Law, is cursed.

If it is possible, as far as is in you, being in peace with all men.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

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

For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.