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

Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,

Now I, Paul, myself entreat you, through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in your presence, indeed, 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 light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

But we became gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:

now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,

to speak evil of no one, to be averse to strife, to be mild, showing all meekness to all men.

Without

do ye not make a distinction among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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

Hypocrisy

So ye also outwardly, indeed, appear righteous to men; but within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

In the meantime, the vast multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread one upon 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 He saith to him, "Behold, an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no guile!"

Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;

Having purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart earnestly;

Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

General references

Take heed, therefore, lest the light in you be darkness.

But this multitude, who know not the law, are accursed."

if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;

But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another.

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

for man's wrath works not God's righteousness.