James 3:17

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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

1 Timothy 5:21

Hypocrisy

1 John 3:18

General references

Bible References

Gentle

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,

I PAUL also exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in appearance am humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you;

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

but we were gentle among you, as a nurse would cherish her own children;

and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

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

Without

are you not condemned in yourselves and judges of evil thoughts?

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

Hypocrisy

So also you on the outside appear just to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

AT that time, the multitude being assembled by ten thousands, so that they trod one on another, he said to his disciples, Beware, first, of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, See an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good,

Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,

My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in work and truth.

General references

See, therefore, that the light which is in you be not darkness.

But this multitude which know not the law are accursed.

if possible, as much as may be in your power, live peaceably with all men,

But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not consumed one by another.

using diligence to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

for man's anger performs not God's righteousness.