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

Malachi 2:9

1 Timothy 5:21

Hypocrisy

General references

Bible References

Gentle

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them: Suckling ones He leadeth.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed am humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,

And 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 became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

Without

ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

Hypocrisy

For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.

so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, 'Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, 'Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

General references

and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

For the sake of my brethren and my companions, Let me speak, I pray thee, 'Peace be in thee.'

The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools.

take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;