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

Ephesians 4:3

Bible References

Gentle

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ ??the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

(for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true),

no, we behaved gently when we were among you, like a nursing mother cherishing her own children,

And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries;

they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.

Without

are you not drawing distinctions in your own minds and proving that you judge people with partiality?

In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

Hypocrisy

So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

General references

(Look! perhaps your very light is dark.)

As for this mob, with its ignorance of the Law ??it is accursed!"

be at peace with all men, if possible, so far as that depends on you.

(whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves.